NOTHING SACRED by LINDA WESTE
- Date
- 30 September
06:30pm to 08:00pm
to be launched by Dr Paul Skrebels (prev. University of South Australia)
Wednesday 30 September, 2015, 6.30pm
Museo Italiano, Co.As.It., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton
Free event – RSVP: [email protected]
Nothing Sacred is a novel written in free verse poems by Melbourne writer, Linda Weste. This imaginative work of fiction evokes the lives of characters including Clodia Metelli, Clodius Pulcher, Catullus, Cicero, Caesar, Caelius and Pompey during 66–42BCE, the final decades of the period of antiquity known as late Republican Rome.
Linda Weste’s poetry has been previously published in University of Queensland Press Best Australian Poetry and literary journals including Westerly, Mascara, and Rabbit. She received the Felix Meyer Scholarship while completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne, where she has taught creative writing. Nothing Sacred is her debut novel in verse and is published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, Arcadia Imprint.
