The Jaguar

· Bolinda · Narrated by Geraldine Hakewill
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With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, 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.
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, 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...

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Sarah Holland-Batt is a Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winning writer, editor and critic, and a Professor of Creative Writing at QUT. She is the author of three books of poems, Aria (2008), The Hazards (2016) and The Jaguar (2022) which won the Stella Prize in 2023, and a book of essays, Fishing for Lightning (2021), collecting her columns on contemporary poetry for The Australian. She is presently the 2022 Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre.

Geraldine Hakewill is an Australian actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for her role as Chelsea Babbage in the Australian TV series Wanted and the titular character in Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, which ran for two seasons from 2019 to 2021. A highly sought-after narrator, Geraldine has narrated a number of high-profile audiobooks including Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, Suzie Miller's Prima Facie and The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt.

Sarah Holland-Batt is a Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winning writer, editor and critic, and a Professor of Creative Writing at QUT. She is the author of three books of poems, Aria (2008), The Hazards (2016) and The Jaguar (2022) which won the Stella Prize in 2023, and a book of essays, Fishing...

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