A powerful tome of poetry invoking the emotions of grief and loss has been chosen as the winner of the $30,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for 2023. The Jaguar, by Sarah Holland-Batt, was praised by Award judges for the author's sustained intensity of imagery in a powerfully-coherent collection of poems written around the dying and the death of the poet's father. "It's rare for a volume of poetry to be so coherent: it functions as a complete whole, a volume not just a collection," Chair of the judging panel, Emeritus Professor Alan Lawson, said.

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