A review by curatoriallyyours
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

tense slow-paced

3.5

This collection starts out purposefully as a record of the poet’s father’s declining health and eventual death. Sections one and two follow this theme and there are some beautifully devastating poems therein. Then the third section seems to take a completely different theme and it becomes a collection of travel poetry. It eventually circles back to the poet’s father but that detour around the world didn’t make sense to me thematically and didn’t resonate as much as the earlier sections, which was a shame.