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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Hazards
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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)

Notes

  • 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 Andy Jackson , 2022 single work criticism
— 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)

Sarah Holland-Batt in Conversation with Rosanna Licari Rosanna Licari (interviewer), 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 3 2018;
Houses and Wells : A Review of The Law of Poetry by MTC Cronin and The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt Marcella Polain , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2017 2017;

— Review of The Law of Poetry M. T. C. Cronin , 2015 selected work poetry ; The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry
[Review Essay] : The Hazards Tony Messenger , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 1 2017; (p. 241-244)
P. S. Cottier Reviews The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt P. S. Cottier , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2016;

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt : The Hazards Martin Duwell , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 10 no. 2015;

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry
Australian Poetry Geoff Page , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 August 2015; (p. 21)

— Review of This Intimate War : Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 Robyn Rowland , Mehmet Ali Celikel (translator), 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians Lucy Dougan , 2015 selected work poetry ; The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry
Tiffany Tsao Reviews The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt Tiffany Tsao , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry
Poetic Landscapes Cassandra Atherton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 375 2015; (p. 69-70)

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry ; Conversations I've Never Had Caitlin Maling , 2015 selected work poetry ; Here Be Dragons Dennis Greene , 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians Lucy Dougan , 2015 selected work poetry
Charmed into Awe, Undercut with Danger Mike Ladd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 24-25) The Saturday Age , 24-25 October 2015; (p. 24)

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry
Poetry : Last Goodbyes in Havana 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2015; (p. 29)
The Virtue of Poetry Phil Brown , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 November 2015; (p. 7)
Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 : Judges Split Three of the $80,000 Prizes Jason Steger , 2016 single work 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 Tony Messenger , 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;
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