Texta Book Club: The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

To coincide with the William Robinson exhibition, Love in Life & Art we will be discussing The Jaguar by award-winning poet and QUT Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Sarah Holland-Batt.

With electrifying boldness, 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 fearlessly probing the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt’s lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.

Here, 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 an indelible collection by a poet at the height of her powers.

Facilitated by University Librarian Nicole Clark and Engagement Officer Renae Belton, the evening commences with an exhibition tour followed by a beverage of your choice and conversations about The Jaguar.

Please join us for this special edition of Texta with the QUT Literary Salon and readings from The Jaguar from our cohort of talented student creative writers.