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By Hannah Story

Stella Prize 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt wins $60,000 for her poetry collection, The Jaguar

The book explores Sarah Holland-Batt's relationship with her late father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's when she was 18 years old. (ABC Arts: Anna Kucera)

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.

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 [and] memorable".

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