Bonny Cassidy
Book Learning

1 July 2009

This Berryman's a moralistic thing:
its jacket has been lit, man rolled back to ma
and shot with liverspots like extra moons
or doctored film of UFOs -

blinked, I think, by a student in the bath
who, before Returns, checked the title page with '??°a marche?
Oui' (knowing a book so used would not reply);

and who, for all his troubles, failed
to notice a label still stuck fast across the blurb
and faded to its price code, W. O. E.


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Bonny Cassidy

About Bonny Cassidy


Bonny Cassidy is a poet, lecturer at the University of Wollongong, and researcher for The Red Room Company. In 2008 she completed a PhD on the poetry of Jennifer Rankin and Jennifer Maiden, and she has published on these poets, Gwen Harwood and other aspects of Australian poetics. Bonny travelled to Japan as an Asialink literature fellow in 2008 and her first chapbook will be appearing later this year through Puncher & Wattmann.

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