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This is the story of Clodia Metelli - poet and lover - and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, with her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention.

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This is the story of Clodia Metelli - poet and lover - and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, with her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention.
Autorenporträt
Anna Jackson is a professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington and the author of the poetry collections Catullus for Children, The Gas Leak, The Long Road to Teatime, and The Pastoral Kitchen, and Thicket. She is also the author of Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915-1962, coauthor of British Juvenile Fiction 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence, and editor of Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction.