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'Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive new collection from award-winning poet Sarah Holland-Batt. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by Myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory world rife with hazards both real and imagined. Her cosmopolitan poems careen through diverse geographical territory - from haunted post-colonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua, the still Danish interiors of Hammershoi and the serial killer stalking Long Island Sound - and engage everywhere with questions of violence and loss, erasure and extinction. Charged with Holland-Batt's mercurial imagination and swift lyricism, this unsettling and darkly intelligent collection inhabits an uncertain world with a questioning eye and clear mind, unafraid to veer 'straight into turbulence'.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: for Mavis K, who taught me the names of things.
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Caesura and the Deforming Poem : Rupture as a Space for the Other
2022
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 37 no. 1 2022;'How does poetry deal with disability? At the level of theme and voice, Australian poetry – including the theorising and criticism of it – has rarely given overt priority to disabled experience. This essay seeks to contribute to a correction of this neglect by adapting the philosophical approach of Emmanuel Levinas, who wrote of the phenomenological preeminence of the Other. It considers how disability – defined expansively as a bodily otherness which also implicates the self – might become apprehended not only within thematic content, but through the disruptions of poetic form.' (Publication abstract)
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Sarah Holland-Batt in Conversation with Rosanna Licari
Rosanna Licari
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2018
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— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 3 2018; -
[Review Essay] : The Hazards
2017
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 1 2017; (p. 241-244) -
P. S. Cottier Reviews The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
2016
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— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2016;
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Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 : Judges Split Three of the $80,000 Prizes
2016
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— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 8 November 2016; 'Two years ago there was quite a kerfuffle when Tony Abbott intervened at the last moment to ensure the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction was shared between the novelist the judges had selected, Steven Carroll, and the PM's captain's pick, Richard Flanagan. ...'
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Sarah Holland-Batt : The Hazards
2015
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— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 10 no. 2015;
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Australian Poetry
2015
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 August 2015; (p. 21)
— Review of This Intimate War : Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 Mehmet Ali Celikel (translator), 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians 2015 selected work poetry ; The Hazards 2015 selected work poetry -
Tiffany Tsao Reviews The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
2015
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— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;
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Poetic Landscapes
2015
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 375 2015; (p. 69-70)
— Review of The Hazards 2015 selected work poetry ; Conversations I've Never Had 2015 selected work poetry ; Here Be Dragons 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians 2015 selected work poetry -
Charmed into Awe, Undercut with Danger
2015
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 24-25) The Saturday Age , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 24)
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Poetry : Last Goodbyes in Havana
2015
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— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2015; (p. 29) -
The Virtue of Poetry
2015
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 November 2015; (p. 7) -
Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 : Judges Split Three of the $80,000 Prizes
2016
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column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 8 November 2016; 'Two years ago there was quite a kerfuffle when Tony Abbott intervened at the last moment to ensure the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction was shared between the novelist the judges had selected, Steven Carroll, and the PM's captain's pick, Richard Flanagan. ...' -
[Review Essay] : The Hazards
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 1 2017; (p. 241-244) -
Sarah Holland-Batt in Conversation with Rosanna Licari
Rosanna Licari
(interviewer),
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 3 2018;
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
- 2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2016 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — John Bray Award for Poetry
- 2016 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
- 2016 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award