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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Final Theory
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'Final Theory is a long poem told in episodes, combining two fragmentary story lines – the one following a couple as they travel through landscapes which are at different times pristine and ravaged by progress; the other portraying the sensations of a child tumbling through the ocean, encountering evidence of lost worlds. Researched and composed in countries that were once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana – New Zealand, Australia and Antarctica – the poem places its figures within vast scales of time and space. The focus on two generations, the near-future and the far-off future, raises questions about the development of consciousness, and what place we as humans have in the unfinished process of chance and change.' (Publication summary)

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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 , 2014 .
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      Extent: 81p.
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      • Published July 2014
      ISBN: 9781922146618
      Series: y separately published work icon Giramondo Poets Giramondo Publishing (publisher), Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2006- Z1440074 2006 series - publisher

Works about this Work

Ecofeminism, New Materialism and Lyric Subjectivity in Bonny Cassidy’s Final Theory and Megan Kaminski’s Gentlewomen Sophie Finlay , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 67 no. 1 2022; (p. 134-146)
'This essay considers how Final Theory (2014) by Australian poet Bonny Cassidy and Gentlewomen (2020) by American poet Megan Kaminski extend our understanding of lyric subjectivity and provide insights into the intersections between ecofeminism and new materialism. in bringing these two contemporary poets alongside one another, I hope to draw attention to trans-Pacific intersections in feminist ecopoetics. Cassidy and Kaminski may practise different poetics, but both encompass inclusive ways of being within the more-than-human world and both find ways to critique, extend or embrace lyricism, demonstrating lyric as a highly flexible medium.' (Introduction) 
 
Country & Western Robert Wood , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;

'That poetry is implicated with politics is incontrovertible.  As Theodore Adorno writes ‘art exists in the real world and has a function in it, and the two are connected by a large number of mediating links.’   Those mediating links however, the things that connect each to the other, are harder to grapple with. What does the daily life of a protest poet look like compared to a conservative one when both work in a modern university? What poetry does the politician read?' (Introduction)

“Hubcap and Lichen” : Anti-Anthropocentrism in Libby Hart’s Wild and Bonny Cassidy’s Final Theory Sally Evans , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 75 no. 3 2016;

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry ; Wild Libby Hart , 2014 selected work poetry
Helen Hagemann Reviews Final Theory by Bonny Cassidy Helen Hagemann , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2015;

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry
Robert Wood Reviews Final Theory by Bonny Cassidy R. D. Wood , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Writ. Poetry Review , September no. 3 2015;

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry
Review : Australian Poetry Ali Smith , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 August 2014; (p. 19)

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry ; A Spell, A Charm John Leonard , 2007-2008 single work poetry ; The End of the World Maria Takolander , 2014 selected work poetry
Poetry Book Review: Final Theory by Bonny Cassidy Eleanor Smagarinsky , 2014 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry
Bonny Cassidy : Final Theory Martin Duwell , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 9 no. 2014;

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry
Clutching, Following, Wondering, Gazing : Lisa Gorton Launches ‘Final Theory’ by Bonny Cassidy Lisa Gorton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June - September no. 12 2014;

— Review of Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry
Art in Words, and a Road Movie Geoff Page , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 January 2015; (p. 20)

— Review of Keeps : With Patience, Mutiny and Man Wolf Man L. K. Holt , 2014 selected work poetry ; Final Theory Bonny Cassidy , 2014 selected work poetry
Country & Western Robert Wood , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;

'That poetry is implicated with politics is incontrovertible.  As Theodore Adorno writes ‘art exists in the real world and has a function in it, and the two are connected by a large number of mediating links.’   Those mediating links however, the things that connect each to the other, are harder to grapple with. What does the daily life of a protest poet look like compared to a conservative one when both work in a modern university? What poetry does the politician read?' (Introduction)

Ecofeminism, New Materialism and Lyric Subjectivity in Bonny Cassidy’s Final Theory and Megan Kaminski’s Gentlewomen Sophie Finlay , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 67 no. 1 2022; (p. 134-146)
'This essay considers how Final Theory (2014) by Australian poet Bonny Cassidy and Gentlewomen (2020) by American poet Megan Kaminski extend our understanding of lyric subjectivity and provide insights into the intersections between ecofeminism and new materialism. in bringing these two contemporary poets alongside one another, I hope to draw attention to trans-Pacific intersections in feminist ecopoetics. Cassidy and Kaminski may practise different poetics, but both encompass inclusive ways of being within the more-than-human world and both find ways to critique, extend or embrace lyricism, demonstrating lyric as a highly flexible medium.' (Introduction) 
 
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