The Jaguar
Author(s): Sarah Holland-Batt
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, 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 compulsively probing the body's animal endurance and appetites, along with the metamorphoses of long illness, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt's distinctive lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.
In this collection 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 a devastating and mesmerising collection by a poet at the height of her powers.
Product Information
Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 0.142
- : 30 April 2022
- : 1 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sarah Holland-Batt
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 112
- : DCF