Also writes as: Boni Kesidi
Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2023 shortlisted Nature Writing Prize for 'A Custodial Species'.
- 2022 shortlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship
- 2021 longlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize for Title
Awards for Works
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Monument
Artarmon
:
Giramondo Publishing
,
2024
26663839
2024
selected work
poetry
prose
'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)
- 2024 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Non-Fiction Book Award
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Chatelaine
Artarmon
:
Giramondo Publishing
,
2017
11570142
2017
selected work
poetry
'The visitor, the guest. The settler, the host. The pariah. Chatelaine is a collection of poems that thrive in the constructed landscape of lyric poetry. They present a mossy, alien cosmology where aeroplanes are forest-like and ‘signifiers turn to pulp outside the window’. Treating voice as a form of occupation and possession, each poem is keenly aware of the space it claims. Together they invite and exorcise fantasies of metamorphosis, reincarnation and belonging – a language and mood inherited through genealogy, an ethics of kin.' (Publication summary)
- 2018 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
- 2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
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Certain Fathoms
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2012
Z1873368
2012
selected work
poetry
'Bonny Cassidy's first book, Certain Fathoms, glimmers with precisely observed moments that make a strange place of the familiar. These poems speak not only to each other but to and of other writers: Eve Langley, John Berryman, JS Harry. Cassidy knits seemingly small phrases and events into glimpses of a vast, interconnected whole. There is a mapping-out here that is organic, not programmatic, preoccupied "with more-than-human subjects," the trains of phrase and acquaintance,/ unstopped chains of heat, return, death". Cool, yet engaged, Cassidy's poems swell with the movements people and things make, making them brightly and newly visible.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2012 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
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