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The Jaguar
Selected Poems
Sarah Holland-Batt
*With its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt’s books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection The Jaguar(2022),this volume will introduce one of Australia’s best-known and widely read poets to many readers for the first time.*
Marked by her distinctive lyric intensity, metaphorical dexterity and linguistic mastery, Holland-Batt’s cosmopolitan poems engage with questions of loss and extinction, violence and erasure. From haunted post-colonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua to the devastations and transfigurations of her father’s long illness, Holland-Batt fearlessly probes the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, and our human place within the natural order of things.
The Jaguar: Selected Poemsbrings together the finest work from her debut volume Aria(2008), with its minimalistic interrogations of the tyrannies of memory; the searching external and internal landscapes of The Hazards(2015); and the fierce, unflinching elegies of The Jaguar(2022), which challenge us to view ruthless witness as a form of love. As John Kinsella has said, 'Holland-Batt is one of the best poets writing not only in Australia but anywhere in the world in English. This is an art of necessity, of belief, and of artisan-like commitment.'
Book details
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books
- Publication year
- 2024
- Collection
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781780377049
- LAN
- 6c22c524d357