{"product_id":"jaguar-1","title":"Jaguar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt’s books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection \u003cem\u003eThe Jaguar \u003c\/em\u003e(2022)\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ethis volume will introduce one of Australia’s best-known and widely read poets to American readers for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarked 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 has touched the hearts of many people who would never usually read a book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Jaguar: Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together the finest work from her debut volume \u003cem\u003eAria \u003c\/em\u003e(2008), with its minimalistic interrogations of the tyrannies of memory; the searching external and internal landscapes of \u003cem\u003eThe Hazards \u003c\/em\u003e(2015); and the fierce, unflinching elegies of \u003cem\u003eThe Jaguar \u003c\/em\u003e(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.''\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400044781950,"sku":"NW9781780377049","price":12.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781780377049.jpg?v=1778604014","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/jaguar-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}