The Jaguar
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-704-9 (ISBN)
Marked by her distinctive lyric intensity, metaphorical dexterity and linguistic mastery, Holland-Batt’s cosmopolitan poems engage with questions of loss and extinction, violence and erasure. From haunted post-colonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua to the devastations and transfigurations of her father’s long illness, Holland-Batt fearlessly probes the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, and our human place within the natural order of things. Her portrayal of a much loved father trying to cope with Parkinson’s Disease touched the hearts of many in Australia who would never usually read a book of poetry.
Her poetry is charged with a fierce intelligence, and an insistence on seeing the world with exacting clarity—as well as a startling capacity to transform our understandings of the familiar through the imaginative act. The poet’s piercing gaze is also frequently turned inward, offering a dissection of the self that is by turns playful and sharply ironic.
The Jaguar: Selected Poems brings together the finest work from her debut volume Aria (2008), with its minimalistic interrogations of the tyrannies of memory; the searching external and internal landscapes of The Hazards (2015); and the fierce, unflinching elegies of The Jaguar (2022), which challenge us to view ruthless witness as a form of love. As John Kinsella has said, 'Holland-Batt is one of the best poets writing not only in Australia but anywhere in the world in English. This is an art of necessity, of belief, and of artisan-like commitment.'
Sarah Holland-Batt is an award-winning Australian poet, editor and critic. Born in Southport, Queensland in 1982, she grew up in Australia and the United States, and has also lived in Italy and Japan. She holds a first-class Honours degree in Literature, an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Queensland, and an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was the W.G. Walker Memorial Fulbright Scholar from 2010-2011. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, an Asialink Literature Residency, a Chateau de Lavigny Fellowship, a Hawthornden Fellowship, a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, and the Australia Council Literature Residency at the B.R. Whiting Studio in Rome, among other honours. Her first book, Aria, was the recipient of several literary prizes, including the Anne Elder Award, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Prize and the Thomas Shapcott Prize, was shortlisted in both the New South Wales and Queensland Premiers' Literary Awards, and was commended for The Age's Poetry Book of the Year. Her second book, The Hazards, won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize, the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Prize, and the John Bray Memorial Poetry Award. Her third book, The Jaguar, won the 2023 Stella Prize and the Queensland Premier’s Award for State Significance, and was named The Australian newspaper’s 2022 Book of the Year. The Jaguar was also longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the ALS Gold Medal, and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize. Her UK retrospective, The Jaguar: Selected Poems, is due from Bloodaxe in September 2024. She will be in the UK to give readings from the book in autumn 2024, supported by a travel grant from Australia Council for the Arts.
from ARIA (2008)
I
19 Pocket Mirror
20 Shore Acres
21 Francesca in the Second Circle
22 Ruined Estates
23 The Woodpile
25 Cavendish Road
26 Rock Roses
27 Atonement
28 Tracery
29 January: An Air
31 Late Aspect
32 Circles and Centres
34 Meditation on the Plums I
35 Elégie
II
36 Misery and Pizzicato
37 Letter to Robert Lowell
39 Exhaustion
40 Two Kinds of Stubbornness
41 The Sewing Room
42 Mythos
43 Materials
44 Athenian Jar
45 The Crow
46 Un bel dì, vedremo
48 Not a Life, But Like One
III
49 Remedios the Beauty
51 Stormclouds over Mexico
52 Letter from K
53 Laughter and Forgetting
54 Aria for a Painted Dancer
56 The Idea of Mountain
57 A Good Marriage
58 The Fires
60 Salem Song
61 The Art of Disappearing
63 Notes
from THE HAZARDS (2015)
I
69 Medusa
70 This Landscape Before Me
72 The Orchid House
74 Tropic Rain
75 Botany
76 A Scrap of Lace
78 An Illustrated History of Settlement
80 The House on Stilts
82 Galah’s Skull
83 Desert Pea
84 Approaching Paradise
II
86 The Vulture
88 Essay on the Toucan
89 The Capuchin
91 The Macaw
93 Life Cycle of the Eel
94 Orange-bellied Parrot
96 Green Ant Tarantella
97 Three Sketches of a Favourite Cat
98 Possum
99 A Crab Tide
III
100 Of Germany
101 Late Hammershøi
103 Collioure/Love Poem
104 Beauty Is a Ticket of Admission to All Spectacles
105 Primavera: The Graces
106 The Quattrocento as a Waltz
107 Interbellum
109 Rain, Ravello
110 Embouchure
112 Against Ingres
114 Liebesträume
115 Umbrian Sketch
116 Reclining Nude
118 Goya’s Dog
119 The Flowers on His Bedside Speak of Eternity
120 No End to Images
IV
121 Insurgency
122 Night Sonnet
123 Impressions of April
124 Morningside Spring
125 Mercado
126 Garden Apartment, Taube
127 Via dell’Amore
128 The Atlantic
130 O California
131 The Invention of Ether
133 Last Goodbyes in Havana
134 Ensign
135 The Hazards
137 Notes
from THE JAGUAR (2022)
I
143 My Father as a Giant Koi
144 The Gift
146 The Parachute
147 Brazil
148 Empires of Mind
150 The Gurney
152 Time Remaining
154 Lime Jelly
156 The Kindest Thing
157 Terminal Lucidity
158 Nessun Dorma
160 The Outing
162 The Clearing
164 At Springbrook
II
166 Thalassography
168 Light Years
170 Pikes Peak
172 Substantia Nigra
173 The Midpoint
175 Tijuana
177 Kneeling Figure
179 The Jaguar
181 The Odds
182 The Grip
184 Neurostimulator
186 The Night Shift
188 Maidenhair
190 Vital Signs
III
192 Instructions for a Lover
193 Epithalamium
195 Classical Allegory
196 Affidavit
197 Parable of the Clubhouse
198 Cipriani
200 On Tiepolo’s Cleopatra
201 Ode to Cartier
203 Alaska
205 The Proposal
207 The Worst of It
208 Blue Quandong
210 Serious Moonlight
IV
212 Driving Through Drystone Country
214 Gin & Tonic at the Rock Hotel
215 Lago Nicaraguense
216 Quetzalcoatl
218 Sketches from the Nile
220 Meditation on Risk in New Hampshire
222 Upon Viewing a Still Life by Chardin and Thinking of the Marathon Bombing in Boston
224 Monopoli
225 On Worthing Beach
228 Great North Road
231 Mediterranean Steps
233 In My Father’s Country
233 I The Burr
234 II Your Dying
236 III The Hex
237 IV Long Division
238 V Antipodes
239 VI Anti-Gravity
240 VII A Brief History of the British Raj
241 VIII Brain Surgery
242 IX The Tremor
243 X Indirect Address
244 XI Winter, Worthing
247 Notes
251 Thanks
255 Biographical note
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-704-5 / 1780377045 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-704-9 / 9781780377049 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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