{"title":"Bonny Cassidy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBonny Cassidy explores the intimate intersections of memory, identity, and place through a rich tapestry of poetic and narrative works. Her writing invites readers to reflect on the nuances of human experience, often blending elements of \u003cem\u003ebiography\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ememoir\u003c\/em\u003e with cultural and artistic insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom contemplations on history to meditations on personal transformation, her books offer a compelling journey into the heart of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e. Expect evocative storytelling that lingers, revealing the profound in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monument-by-bonny-cassidy-9781922725899","title":"Monument","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMonument\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing 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 \u003cem\u003earchival poetics\u003c\/em\u003e and Katrina Schlunke's \u003cem\u003eBluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre\u003c\/em\u003e, Cassidy's \u003cem\u003eMonument\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844666249452,"sku":"9781922725899","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15670113482872.jpg?v=1758850649"},{"product_id":"chatelaine-by-bonny-cassidy-9781925336450","title":"Chatelaine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poems peopled by characters who, like a family portrait, resemble one another in foxed, latent ways. Their voices stalk outside of time and place, inhabiting the genres of riddle, fragment, confession, lyric, and ekphrasis, and returning to images of metamorphosis and occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems present a mossy, alien cosmology where aeroplanes are forest-like and 'signifiers turn to pulp outside the window'. They also express a language and mood inherited through genealogy, an ethics of kin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith influences from Kabir to New Wave Australian cinema, Lucie Brock-Broido to Oceanic sculpture, they ask: who does the poem belong to? Who lives there and who comes to visit?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340676350188,"sku":"9781925336450","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13689833482873.jpg?v=1772164986"},{"product_id":"final-theory-by-bonny-cassidy-9781922146618","title":"Final Theory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinal Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a long poem told in episodes, combining two fragmentary storylines – one following a couple as they travel through landscapes that are at different times pristine and ravaged by progress; the other portraying the sensations of a child tumbling through the ocean, encountering evidence of lost worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eResearched and composed in countries that were once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana – New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica – the poem places its figures within vast scales of time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe focus on two generations, the near-future and the far-off future, raises questions about the development of consciousness and what place we as humans have in the unfinished process of chance and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340789006572,"sku":"9781922146618","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9877303482872.jpg?v=1772169209"},{"product_id":"certain-fathoms-by-bonny-cassidy-9781921450372","title":"Certain Fathoms","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBonny Cassidy's first book, \u003cem\u003eCertain Fathoms\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCool, yet engaged, Cassidy's poems swell with the movements people and things make, making them brightly and newly visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bonny Cassidy's ambitious, fine-crafted, better than merely 'well observed', poetry deserves to become acclaimed. With the power of her very evident economy it seems that every word has been carefully considered and placed in position, for these are pieces to be read distinctly and deliberately. And if the language is clear (though it certainly isn't bland) nevertheless readers aren't taken for lowest-common-denominator mugs, and are thus invited to use their imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile the poet continues working behind the poems, setting up her tasks, solving her problems, producing a verse that is the antithesis of self-absorbed.\" - Alan Wearne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595941134572,"sku":"9781921450372","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1252abd95996b83e515b1a6b17488ea2.jpg?v=1777932669"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/bonny-cassidy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}