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"The poems in Green Point Bearings traverse much wider geographic, historical and emotional territory that the collection's title might imply. They exhibit a consistent, coherent voice and sensibility which are alive to beauty, to the natural world, to art, and to the joys and pains of intimate relationships. These are tactile poems whose lush and detailed imagery encourages the reader to plot a path among 'the unbounded and the ageless'." - Brook Emery"There is marvellous vitality in Kathryn Fry's poems: delight with the world, expressed with clarity and musicality. Her vivid observations, crafted with sensitivity and candid emotion, make this a refreshingly engaging collection." - Jean Kent

'From quandongs to Covid-19, from a grandchild discovering Neptune's necklace to small butterflies darting "as if in time to Ross Edwards' Ecstatic Dances..." this second book from Kathryn Fry offers a kaleidoscopic dazzle of imagery from the natural world. In a vividly recognisable Australian landscape, her poems are rich in scientific curiosity and knowledge, but also grounded and emotionally connected to everyday life. There is a delightful buoyancy in the writing: an enthusiasm for the way we live in our contemporary world which offers many "hallelujahs" and "blessings" as well as poignant insights. The Earth Will Outshine Us is an impressively original and timely collection.' - Jean Kent'Reading Kathryn Fry's fine poems of nature and art, I was suddenly thinking of Simon Schama's monumental Landscape and Memory. But where Schama explains, analyses and informs, Kathryn Fry - delicately, precisely - evokes, unveils, delights and reminds. To misquote from her poem "The Earth Will Outshine Us", these poems are "a lesson // in seeing". And feeling: for the art and science of being sentient to the fragile beauties of this world and its people.' - Brook Emery

To Speak of Grasses is a 2025 collection of poetry by Australian poet Kathryn Fry, following previous collections published by Ginninderra Press: Green Point Bearings (2018) and The Earth Will Outshine Us (2021). To Speak of Grasses concerns itself, through the extensive use of imagery, with the realms of nature, music, art and the emotional landscape of close relationships, some spanning several decades.The three sections are: 'Suspended': as poems of witness mainly to the natural world in places on the west and east of this country;'In the Company of Lovers' which has poems about music, art and current, close personal relationships;and 'Walking Each Other' with its emphasis on the legacy of past experiences.(Jenny Blackford)Kathryn Fry's poems in To Speak of Grasses combine admirable precision with equally impressive lyricism. Her clear, loving descriptions of the natural world are carefully scientific as well as poetic. Plants, landscape, animals, her family and others are treated with the same close observation and love.