{"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","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/monument-by-bonny-cassidy-9781922725899","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}