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A review by toniclark
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
5.0
The Jaguar, a poetry collection, chronicles Sarah Holland-Batt’s relationship with her late father, his struggles with Parkinson’s disease, and his death. It’s brilliant, gorgeous writing, poetry that will take your breath away, that you (or at least, I) will read over and over.
“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.” - University of Queensland Press
“‘Considering Sarah Holland-Batt’s technical nuance (her unpredictable harmonics, intense wordplay, neologisms, synesthetic sensual registries, double analogies), her book’s resonant emotional force, and its insistent internationality, what is there to say about The Jaguar that doesn’t begin with “Extraordinary!"’
“ — Forrest Gander
The Jaguar is the winner of the 2023 $60,000 Stella Prize, an annual Australian literary award for writing by Australian women in all genres.
I listened to the audiobook, read by Holland-Batt, and just marvelous!
“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.” - University of Queensland Press
“‘Considering Sarah Holland-Batt’s technical nuance (her unpredictable harmonics, intense wordplay, neologisms, synesthetic sensual registries, double analogies), her book’s resonant emotional force, and its insistent internationality, what is there to say about The Jaguar that doesn’t begin with “Extraordinary!"’
“ — Forrest Gander
The Jaguar is the winner of the 2023 $60,000 Stella Prize, an annual Australian literary award for writing by Australian women in all genres.
I listened to the audiobook, read by Holland-Batt, and just marvelous!