Fishing for Lightning*remove*: The Spark of Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Holland-Batt, Sarah

Poetry

IPG Publishing

Fishing for Lightning *remove*: The Spark of Poetry

Sarah Holland-Batt's Aria, winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is a striking debut. Like piano music heard through a high window, the language is haunting but entirely of this world. The poems are awake to the dark constellations of art and history, to what momentarily is, and to what flows endlessly on. 

Aria (UQP Poetry Series)

University of Queensland Press

Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. 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 postcolonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua, the still Danish interiors of Hammershøi 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.”

The Hazards

Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland-Batt offers a masterclass in how to read and love poetry, opening up the music of language, form, and poetic technique in her casual and conversational yet deeply intelligent style. From the villanelle to the verse novel, the readymade and the remix to the sonnet, Holland-Batt's essays range across the breadth of contemporary poetry, but also delve into the richness of poetic and literary history, connecting the contemporary to the ancient. Dazzling in its erudition, but always accessible and entertaining, Fishing for Lightning convinces us of the power of poetry to change our lives.

Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry

History & Criticism

With electrifying boldness, 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.

The Jaguar

Above all, poetry - for both its readers and its writers - is a form that demands attentiveness and active intelligence. It treats language as a volatile and charged commodity, and one whose subtleties and nuances are worth puzzling over.' Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm as editor of this year's Best Australian Poems. Demonstrating the diversity, inventive brilliance and dynamism of our country's finest poets, this collection features work from both rising stars and well-known figures, and presents a dazzling array of themes and styles. Whether addressing biotechnology or domestic violence, migrant experience or the natural world, the poems in this anthology are sure to inspire, provoke and move. Poets include Martin Harrison, Judith Beveridge, Clive James, Keven Brophy, Joanne Burns, Les Murray, Pam Brown, Eileen Chong, Luke Davies, Laurie Duggan, Geoff Page, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Toby Fitch, Robert Gray, Lisa Gorton, Natalie Harkin, John Kinsella, Felicity Plunkett, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Billy Marshall Stoneking, Cate Kennedy, David Malouf, Julie Chevalier, Lionel G. Fogarty and many more...

The Best Australian Poems 2016

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Black Inc.

Violencia, pérdida y extinción, desde los paisajes postcoloniales de Australia, hasta los bosque nubosos de Nicaragua, Los peligros, ganador entre otros del 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, refleja un mundo depredador, plagado de amenazas reales e imaginarias a las que el lector se enfrenta a través de un lirismo rápido, oscuro y lingüísticamente exquisito.
Cargados de la imaginación mercurial de Sarah Holland-Batt, los poemas viajan por toda la geografía explorando las relaciones familiares, adentrándose en paisajes urbanos y estudiando los instintos animales para tratar de analizar la naturaleza del amor, un sentimiento al que siempre parece acompañarle la soledad.

Los peligros (Spanish Edition)

Vaso Roto Ediciones S.L

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Fishing for Lightningremove: The Spark of Poetry

Fishing for Lightning remove: The Spark of Poetry

Aria (UQP Poetry Series)

The Hazards

Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry

The Jaguar

The Best Australian Poems 2016

The Best Australian Poems 2016

Los peligros (Spanish Edition)