Bibliograph

The jaguar, Sarah Holland-Batt

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The jaguar, Sarah Holland-Batt

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The jaguar

Responsibility statement

Sarah Holland-Batt

Summary

This is a 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

Target audience

adult

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