The Jaguar
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With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, 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 compulsively probing the body's animal endurance and appetites, along with the metamorphoses of long illness, *The Jaguar* is marked by Holland-Batt's distinctive lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.
In this collection 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 a devastating and mesmerising collection by a poet at the height of her powers.