The Earth Will Outshine Us

<p>'From quandongs to Covid-19 from a grandchild discovering Neptune's necklace to small butterflies darting as if in time to Ross Edwards' <em>Ecstatic Dances</em>... 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. <em>The Earth Will Outshine Us</em> is an impressively original and timely collection.' - Jean Kent</p><p>'Reading Kathryn Fry's fine poems of nature and art I was suddenly thinking of Simon Schama's monumental <em>Landscape and Memory</em>. 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</p>