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Author Holland-Batt, Sarah, author

Title The hazards / Sarah Holland-Batt
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2015

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Contents Cover; Author biography; Also by Sarah Holland-Batt; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Part I; Medusa; This Landscape Before Me; The Orchid House; Tropic Rain; Botany; A Scrap of Lace; An Illustrated History of Settlement; The House on Stilts; Galah's Skull; Desert Pea; Approaching Paradise; Part II; The Vulture; Essay on the Toucan; The Capuchin; The Macaw; Life Cycle of the Eel; Orange-bellied Parrot; Green Ant Tarantella; Three Sketches of a Favourite Cat; Possum; Muttonbird; 41A Crab Tide; Part III; Of Germany; Late Hammershøi; Collioure/Love Poem
Beauty is a Ticket of Admission to All SpectaclesIn the Mauerpark; Primavera: The Graces; Poem for My Father at Sanssouci; The Quattrocento as a Waltz; Interbellum; Rain, Ravello; Embouchure; Aubade; Against Ingres; Liebesträume; Umbrian Sketch; Reclining Nude; Goya's Dog; The Flowers on His Bedside Speak of Eternity; No End to Images; Part IV; Insurgency; Night Sonnet; Impressions of April; Morningside Spring; Mercado; Garden Apartment, Taube; 80Via dell'Amore; The Atlantic; O California; The Invention of Ether; Last Goodbyes in Havana; Postcard from Another Life; Ensign; The Hazards; Notes
AcknowledgementsAlso by Sarah Holland-Batt; End ad for David Malouf -- Earth Hour; End ad for Kathryn Lomer -- Night Writing
Summary 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 stalk
Analysis Australian
Subject Danger perception -- Poetry
FICTION -- General.
Danger perception
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780702255151
0702255157