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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Monument
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'An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. Monument is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy's fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past - part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel writing, and sometimes counterfactual speculation - it traces the complex consequences of colonial settlement across the generations of a White Australian family of mixed origins and ancestries. Following the threads and detours signalled by research, objects and testimony, Cassidy makes a case for the value of 'collected memory' against the tide of settlement and silence. Inspired by the methods of Natalie Harkin's archival poetics and Katrina Schlunke's Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre, Cassidy's Monument considers how non-Indigenous Australians might absorb First Nations truth-telling; and what this means for acts of speech, and writing. Should our memories serve the living or the dead, the past or the present? Why do we need new monuments in Australia, and where should we expect to find them?' (Publication summary) 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2024 .
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      Extent: 256p.
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      • Publication date 1 February 2024

      ISBN: 9781922725899

Works about this Work

Bonny Cassidy Monument Mireille Juchau , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11 March 2024;

— Review of Monument Bonny Cassidy , 2024 selected work poetry prose

'Years ago, in a local medical pathology museum, I saw a large human bone with the remains of the spear that pierced it. Ever since I’ve wondered about that specimen’s history, and the label that failed to describe it.' (Publication summary)

‘Poetic’, ‘Fearless’, ‘A Creative Triumph’: The Best Australian Books Out in February Sian Cain , Steph Harmon , Bec Kavanagh , Jack Callil , Yvonne C Lam , Lucy Clark , Imogen Dewey , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 4 February 2024;

— Review of My Brilliant Sister Amy Brown , 2024 single work novel ; We All Lived in Bondi Then Georgia Blain , 2024 selected work short story ; Politica Yumna Kassab , 2024 single work novel ; The Great Undoing Sharlene Allsopp , 2024 single work novel ; Monument Bonny Cassidy , 2024 selected work poetry prose ; The Pulling Adele Dumont , 2024 selected work autobiography essay ; All the Words We Know Bruce Nash , 2024 single work novel ; The Next Big Thing James Colley , 2024 single work novel
Amelia Dale Interviews Bonny Cassidy Amelia Dale (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 114-121)
‘Poetic’, ‘Fearless’, ‘A Creative Triumph’: The Best Australian Books Out in February Sian Cain , Steph Harmon , Bec Kavanagh , Jack Callil , Yvonne C Lam , Lucy Clark , Imogen Dewey , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 4 February 2024;

— Review of My Brilliant Sister Amy Brown , 2024 single work novel ; We All Lived in Bondi Then Georgia Blain , 2024 selected work short story ; Politica Yumna Kassab , 2024 single work novel ; The Great Undoing Sharlene Allsopp , 2024 single work novel ; Monument Bonny Cassidy , 2024 selected work poetry prose ; The Pulling Adele Dumont , 2024 selected work autobiography essay ; All the Words We Know Bruce Nash , 2024 single work novel ; The Next Big Thing James Colley , 2024 single work novel
Bonny Cassidy Monument Mireille Juchau , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11 March 2024;

— Review of Monument Bonny Cassidy , 2024 selected work poetry prose

'Years ago, in a local medical pathology museum, I saw a large human bone with the remains of the spear that pierced it. Ever since I’ve wondered about that specimen’s history, and the label that failed to describe it.' (Publication summary)

Amelia Dale Interviews Bonny Cassidy Amelia Dale (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 114-121)
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