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OverviewAn 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? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bonny CassidyPublisher: Giramondo Publishing Co Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Co ISBN: 9781922725899ISBN 10: 1922725897 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBonny Cassidy is the author of three poetry collections - Certain Fathoms, Final Theory and Chatelaine (shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award) - and co-editor of the anthology Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. Her essays and criticism on Australian literature and culture have been widely published, and her awards include an Asialink fellowship and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. She teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University and lives in the bush on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Central Victoria. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |