The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt

The Jaguar
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Country
Australia
Published
3 May 2022
Pages
112
ISBN
9780702265501

The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt

Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize

Winner of the 2023 Queensland Premier's Awards for a Work of State Significance

With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father’s Parkinson’s Disease, and a daughter forged by grief.

Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death, and fearlessly probing the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt’s lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.

Here, Holland-Batt is at her most exacting and uncompromising: these ferociously intelligent, insistent poems refuse to look away, and challenge us to view ruthless witness as a form of love. The Jaguar is an indelible collection by a poet at the height of her powers.

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