Bonny Cassidy

Bonny Cassidy is the author of three poetry collections and one book of nonfiction, Monument (Giramondo Publishing, 2024). Her writing and literary scholarship have been published widely and internationally for twenty years. Formerly an academic, she now runs independent writing workshops and works as a community and private therapist. Bonny lives in the bush on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.

Works 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 poet...
19 Oct. 2020
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
3 May. 2018

Works Featuring Bonny Cassidy

Karma Chameleon
Bonny Cassidy’s Chatelaine is a gift to a reviewer that doesn’t want to paraphrase poems, for a reader that doesn’t need such summarising.
28 July. 2021

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Bonny Cassidy

Works By Bonny Cassidy

Between Night and Night

My Father Didn’t Write That: I Did: on A Woman of the Future

Works Featuring Bonny Cassidy

Karma Chameleon