{"product_id":"9781780377049-jaguar","title":"The Jaguar","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt’s books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection \u003cem\u003eThe Jaguar \u003c\/em\u003e(2022), this volume will introduce one of Australia’s best-known and widely read poets to many readers for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt’s books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection \u003cem\u003eThe Jaguar\u003c\/em\u003e (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. Her portrayal of a much loved father trying to cope with Parkinson’s Disease touched the hearts of many in Australia who would never usually read a book of poetry. Her poetry is charged with a fierce intelligence, and an insistence on seeing the world with exacting clarity—as well as a startling capacity to transform our understandings of the familiar through the imaginative act. The poet’s piercing gaze is also frequently turned inward, offering a dissection of the self that is by turns playful and sharply ironic. The Jaguar: Selected Poems brings together the finest work from her debut volume \u003cem\u003eAria\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), with its minimalistic interrogations of the tyrannies of memory; the searching external and internal landscapes of \u003cem\u003eThe Hazards\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); and the fierce, unflinching elegies of \u003cem\u003eThe Jaguar \u003c\/em\u003e(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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41824385040481,"sku":"9781780377049","price":13.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30918881.jpg?v=1731038732","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780377049-jaguar","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}