A literary memoir that turns the idea of a monument inside out.

Bonny Cassidy traces her Anglo-Irish settler lineage alongside the histories of the Indigenous communities her family’s presence intersects with. Moving between poetry, essay, microhistory and archival fragments, she follows objects, testimonies and inherited stories to examine what survives — and what has been deliberately forgotten.

Monument asks what it means for non-Indigenous Australians to encounter First Nations truth-telling without defensiveness or erasure. How should memory function in a country built on dispossession? Who are monuments really fo? Are they for the living, the dead, the past, or the future?

Measured, searching, formally inventive.