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My Catullus poems, which have come and gone at intervals over the past half century, have never been translations from the Latin, though some have borrowed; and never ‘confessional poems’, though how close to ‘truth’ and how far from it…

“… attempted murder, do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?” Home Truths, the new bestselling crime novel by Hawkes Bay author Charity Norman, takes the reader back in time to follow the falling dominoes that have led to Livia…