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y separately published work icon Chatelaine selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Chatelaine
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'The visitor, the guest. The settler, the host. The pariah. Chatelaine is a collection of poems that thrive in the constructed landscape of lyric poetry. They present a mossy, alien cosmology where aeroplanes are forest-like and ‘signifiers turn to pulp outside the window’. Treating voice as a form of occupation and possession, each poem is keenly aware of the space it claims. Together they invite and exorcise fantasies of metamorphosis, reincarnation and belonging – a language and mood inherited through genealogy, an ethics of kin.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Epigraph: Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later that night you were lying, looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and you think to yourself, "Why is it that the landscape in moving, but the boat is still?" Dead Man (Dir. Jim Jarmusch)

    Native is a language, can't you read? 'Ask' The Smiths.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2017 .
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      Extent: 96p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 September 2017

      ISBN: 9781925336450

Works about this Work

Karma Chameleon Michael Farrell , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2021;

— Review of Chatelaine Bonny Cassidy , 2017 selected work poetry

'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. Rather, its line-up of loosely framed lyrics offers opportunities for thinking and (re)reading. Cassidy’s figure of the chatelaine, or key-keeper, lives, or moves, somewhere in between the reader and the poet. There are keys being kept but they are not in a predetermined place, nor, I suspect, are there any predetermined keyholes either. Whether or not this seems like hedge-betting will reflect your idea of what literature is for, or what it does.' (Introduction)

What I’m Reading Luke Beesley , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020;
A. Buchanan-Stuart Reviews Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy. Anne Buchanan-Stuart , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2018;

— Review of Chatelaine Bonny Cassidy , 2017 selected work poetry
December in Poetry Bella Li , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2017;
A. Buchanan-Stuart Reviews Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy. Anne Buchanan-Stuart , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2018;

— Review of Chatelaine Bonny Cassidy , 2017 selected work poetry
Karma Chameleon Michael Farrell , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2021;

— Review of Chatelaine Bonny Cassidy , 2017 selected work poetry

'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. Rather, its line-up of loosely framed lyrics offers opportunities for thinking and (re)reading. Cassidy’s figure of the chatelaine, or key-keeper, lives, or moves, somewhere in between the reader and the poet. There are keys being kept but they are not in a predetermined place, nor, I suspect, are there any predetermined keyholes either. Whether or not this seems like hedge-betting will reflect your idea of what literature is for, or what it does.' (Introduction)

December in Poetry Bella Li , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2017;
What I’m Reading Luke Beesley , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020;
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