Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Sarah Holland-Batt's 'The Jaguar' is a beautiful and existential book of poetry that is committed to its central theme. Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize.
7 or 8/10
*I say the father in this book has dementia, which was what I thought while reading it, but apparently it's Parkinson's Disease. My apologies, I am very dumb!
The Jaguar: 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.
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Sarah Holland-Batt's 'The Jaguar' is a beautiful and existential book of poetry that is committed to its central theme. Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize.
7 or 8/10
*I say the father in this book has dementia, which was what I thought while reading it, but apparently it's Parkinson's Disease. My apologies, I am very dumb!
The Jaguar: 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.
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/61199102
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/TheDiscoKing
Let me know what I should review next! Thanks for watching, and remember: Rupi Kaur bad?
#stellaprize2023 #milesfranklin #australia #books #booktube #booktuber
