AustLit

'Letterature consists of narrative poems, mainly in the form of verse letters to spouses, relatives, friends or colleagues; some are diary entries. All are imagined to have been written by exceptional and historical Australian women. This collection is modelled on Ovid's Heroides, verse letters from women in Greek and Roman mythology. This book is very probably the first collection of verse letters of women written by a male poet in personas of women since Ovid's ground-breaking anthology, produced in the flowering of Latin poetry in the Age of Augustus.' (Publication summary)