She frequently contributes commentary, reportage and analysis on aged care issues to media outlets including 7.30, The Guardian, The Australian, and ABC Radio National. Her current research interests are situated in the field of the medical humanities, and focus on representations of death, dying, ageing and aged care in literature and the media. In 2022, Holland-Batt was appointed as the Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, an honour offered annually to a distinguished Australian writer whose work offers a literary perspective on health and chronic disease. The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. The author of three volumes of poetry – most recently The Jaguar (2022) – and a book of essays collecting her poetry columns for The Australian, she is the recipient of numerous honours for her work, including the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. During the internship, she is seen to be going through sentimental chaos of adolescence that later attempts to swallow. As hard as her poetry hits us in the feels, The Bell Jar engulfs in blues all the more triggering and haunting. Sarah Holland-Batt is an award-winning poet, editor and critic, and a member of QUT's Creative Writing faculty. This novel published in 1963 is a peephole into Plath’s own life, published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas.
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