The jaguar / Sarah Holland-Batt.
Publication details: St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 2022.Description: 127 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780702265501 :
- A821.4 23
- Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize. Winner 2023 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 821.4 HOL | Available | 071933 |
A stunning new collection from one of Australia's finest poets - her most impressive work yet.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.
Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize.
Winner 2023 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance.
