She tells ABC Arts: "It's really surreal and incredibly exciting and a bit astonishing. It was the friendship, generosity, and camaraderie of women that not only saw me through this difficult time, but that has been the sustaining armature of my writing life." In a statement responding to her win, Holland-Batt said: "I wrote this book during an intensely challenging period, as my father was dying, and just after. Big Beautiful Female Theory by Eloise Grills." capture grief and loss and love through unforgettable imagery, often blended with humour."Ĭhair of the judging panel, author Alice Pung, wrote that Holland-Batt's book "unflinchingly observes the complex emotions of caring for loved ones, contending with our own mortality and above all – continuing to live". The judges' report described the collection, Holland-Batt's third, as "accessible, lyrical and wise", and the poems about the poet and her father as "tender memorable". Sarah Holland-Batt has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her intimate and affecting poetry collection The Jaguar, about her relationship with her late father, who suffered from Parkinson's disease.
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