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With electrifying boldness, 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, a...

Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland-Batt offers a masterclass in how to read and love poetry, opening up the music of language, form, and poetic technique in her casual and conversational yet deeply intelligent style"--Publisher's description.

Violencia, pérdida y extinción, desde los paisajes postcoloniales de Australia, hasta los bosque nubosos de Nicaragua, Los peligros, ganador entre otros del 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, refleja un mundo depredador, plagado de amenazas reales e imaginarias a las que el lector se enfrenta a través de un lirismo rápido, oscuro y lingüísticamente exquisito.Cargados de la imaginación mercurial de Sarah Holland-Batt, los poemas v...

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I hope you see in these poems what I see: order and rebellion, ardour and irony, beauty and abjection and everything in between.' -Sarah Holland-BattFor The Best Australian Poems 2017, award-winning poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt has assembled a brilliant set of voices, styles and moods. Subjects include everything from a plague of bogong moths invading Parliament House to the after-effects of the nuclear tests at Maralinga. In their wit a...

Keine Beschreibung.

Above all, poetry - for both its readers and its writers - is a form that demands attentiveness and active intelligence. It treats language as a volatile and charged commodity, and one whose subtleties and nuances are worth puzzling over.' -Sarah Holland-Batt

Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory world rife with hazards, both real and imagined. Her cosmopolitan poems careen through diverse geographical territory--from haunted postcolonial la...

Sarah Holland-Batt's Aria, winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is an impressive addition to this award winning series.