About this Event
Sarah Holland-Batt is an award-winning Australian poet, editor, and critic, the author of three award-winning collections. She is a Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Her UK retrospective, The Jaguar: Selected Poems, is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. With its rich selection from each of her books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection The Jaguar (2022), this volume will introduce one of Australia’s best-known and mostly widely read poets to many readers for the first time.
Marked by her distinctive lyric intensity, metaphorical dexterity and linguistic mastery, Holland-Batt’s cosmopolitan poems engage everywhere 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.
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).
Join us on Tue Nov 05 2024 at 07:00:00 GMT at the Scottish Poetry Library. Get ready to immerse yourself in the captivating world of poetry with Sarah Holland-Batt as she presents her latest work, The Jaguar. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the power of words and connect with fellow poetry enthusiasts. See you there!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 7.00
