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Sep 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sarah Holland-Batt
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more
Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Holland-Batt
Ever since the Howard government’s Aged Care Act 1997 ushered in a disastrous free-market approach to Australia’s aged-care system, a reliable feature of subsequent, listless attempts to undo the damage has been the way in which the aged-care lobby fights tooth and nail against every positive change. Even in the wake of a bruising royal commission, little has changed.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Rick Morton |Sarah Holland-Batt
7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. How to listen? WebsitePoet and aged care advocate Sarah Holland-Batt on whether the government's new laws will be enough to turn around the disaster that is our aged care system. In 2018, then prime minister Scott Morrison announced a royal commission into aged care, shedding light on the astonishing prevalence of abuse in residential facilities.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Sarah Holland-Batt |Paul Kane |Peter Rose
Click here to enter the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
First prize: AU$6,000
Four other shortlisted poets: AU$1,000
Closes: midnight AEST, 7 October 2024
Judges: Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane, Peter Rose
Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the twenty-first Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 1 July 2024 until midnight AEST, 7 October 2024. This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
insideageing.com.au | Sarah Holland-Batt
In this guest post, Professor Sarah Holland-Batt, Patron of the grassroots advocacy group Aged Care Reform Now, shares an end-of-year message calling for the need to value and prioritise aged care as a vital aspect of civil society. How can Australia achieve a safe and compassionate aged care system that we might one day be willing to enter? And how can we improve the quality of life for older Australians in our aged care system today?
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May 31, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Sarah Holland-Batt |Sean Kelly |Mark McKenna |Margaret Simons
These lines come from a poem I love, called “Night”, by Louise Bogan. I memorised them many years ago because I liked their succinct imperative not to fear death. They are also the lines that swam into my mind when I came as close as I have ever come to dying, standing face to face with an adult male grizzly bear in the wilds of Alaska.
I’d been living in New York that year, trying to write my second book.
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May 25, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Sarah Holland-Batt |Sean Kelly |Mark McKenna |Margaret Simons
These lines come from a poem I love, called “Night”, by Louise Bogan. I memorised them many years ago because I liked their succinct imperative not to fear death. They are also the lines that swam into my mind when I came as close as I have ever come to dying, standing face to face with an adult male grizzly bear in the wilds of Alaska.
I’d been living in New York that year, trying to write my second book.
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May 10, 2023 | 
swf.org.au | Sarah Holland-Batt |Beejay Silcox
Sarah Holland-Batt (Australian)
Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of three books of poetry –The Jaguar (2022), The Hazards (2015) and Aria (2008) – and a book of essays on contemporary poetry, Fishing for Lightning (2021). Her honours include the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo in the United States.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Sarah Holland-Batt
The Jaguar is an intimate book, dwelling in the borderlands between life and death where my father spent his final days and hours of Parkinson’s Disease. Sitting beside my father’s hospital bed, the world was never more ordinary, never more small – yet at the same time, I was aware I was witnessing the most mysterious transformation of a human life.
