2023 Winner
By Sarah Holland-Batt
A stunning new collection from one of Australia's finest poets - her most impressive work yet.
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.
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.