'Grass Notes' is Sarah Day's sixth book of poems. Her previous collection 'The Ship' won the Queensland Premier's Judith Wright Calanthe and the University of Melbourne Wesley Michelle Wright Awards. It was also joint winner of the ACT Judith Wright Prize.
The poems in 'Grass Notes' are linked by cadence and musicality. Time and transience form the sub-stratum of much of this collection which moves from the intimacy of the close-up, to wide angle views of humanity– "orbiting a mundane star on the outer margins/ of the Milky Way" (Observatory).