Grass Notes

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Grass Notes is a highly crafted poetry collection. Subtle, rich and diverse in subject matter, Sarah Day's poems are linked by cadence and musicality. Time and transience form the sub-stratum of much of the book: the past from the perspective of the present, the present from the perspective of the past (View from a Roman Litter). The poems take into their scope geological time and the enigmatic nature of the present, inviting the reader to ask questions and share in her vividly rendered observations.

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Sarah Day was born in England and grew up in Tasmania. Her books have received considerable recognition. Her fifth collection, The Ship (Brandl & Schlesinger 2004) won the Judith Wright Calanthe Queensland Premier's Award and the Judith Wright ACT Award for poetry 2005 and the University of Melbourne Wesley Michelle Wright Prize 2004. In 2002 her New and Selected Poems was published by Arc in UK. It was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Awards and the National Book Council Awards. Her other books include A Hunger to be Less Serious which won the Anne Elder Award in 1987 and A Madder Dance which was shortlisted for the NBC Banjo Awards.