Bonny Cassidy
Bonny Cassidy’s criticism and essays on Australian writing have been widely published nationally and internationally. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Chatelaine (Giramondo, 2017). Bonny coedited the anthology, Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry and teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University.
All essays by Bonny Cassidy
Between Night and Night
Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness is a journey of sorts; neither linear nor heroic, but certainly profound. It is a struggle between dark and dark. How to interpret the suffering of another, of the Earth, and of oneself? Whereas other poets have found ways to bear witness to telluric presence through language, Boyle is working at the hinge where psychic and material reality meet. He bears witness to his own lyric continuity as a poet, but through his polyvocal skill he makes this an act of humming fluidity instead of solipsism and cacophony.
My Father Didn’t Write That: I Did: on A Woman of the Future
As Alethea Hunt matures, the question of her personal fate becomes increasingly bound up with those of potential, agency and attitude within her environment. The novel, then, is an anti-bildungsroman (in which Alethea’s adulthood is replaced with radical biological ‘change’) and an anti-kunstleroman (in which her change renders her unable to continue writing).
