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Book Launch: Just give me the Pills by Koraly Dimitriadis |
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Controversial opinion writer, poet and performer Koraly Dimitriadis has published her second book, Just Give Me The Pills, and The Greek Centre are hosting the event and you're all invited!
In a large, white-picket dream, a married mother selfishly cries. She has everything she ever wanted—a husband, a house, a business degree, a baby—she is at the pinnacle of the migrant dream. Now she is thirty, and it’s as if she is looking at her life for the very first time. The creativity she had kept buried inside all her life birthed out with her daughter, and now her words are taking on a life of their own. Just Give Me The Pills is a story of repression. It is a story of being silenced, and the terror of realising all the choices you’ve ever made are those you were expected to make, and you have no idea who you really are. It is a story of liberation, of rebuilding and finding one’s true self.
You can view one of the poems from the film, Love according to wogs, here!
Featuring prominent Melbourne poets and musicians from migrant backgrounds responding to the metaphor 'just give me the pills' the night promises to be one not to be missed!
Just Give Me The Pills will be launched by playwright and poet Emilie Collyer and feature veteran guitarist-vocalist Pascal Latra supported by Jacob Papadopoulos and poets Koraly Dimitriadis, Amanda Anastasi, Angela Costi, Kylie Supski, Misbah Khokhar, Tariro Mavondo. The night will be hosted by cabaret singer, comedian and poet Amy Bodossian.
Sunday 2 December 2018, 6:30pm
The Greek Centre | Delphi Bank Mez
168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
About Koraly Koraly Dimitriadis is a freelance essayist/journalist/opinion writer and has had countless articles published across Australian news sites such as News.com.au, Rendezview, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, The Age, SMH, ABC, SBS, The Saturday Paper, Daily Life, Junkee.com, New Matilda, Overland, Mamamia, Neos Kosmos, as well The Independent (UK).
Koraly is a fierce and raw poet and the author of the Australian poetry bestseller Love and F--k Poems which was also translated into Greek with foreign rights sold into the UK. Just Give Me The Pills and Love and F--k Poems form the basis of her theatre show KORALY: “I say the wrong things all the time” directed by Cypriot director Olga Aristodemou which premiered at La Mama Courthouse Theatre. Koraly also directed, produced, wrote and acted in four short films of her poems funded by Australia Council called The Good Greek Girl Film Project. Koraly received a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and Chantilly Arts Residency for her unpublished fiction novel, Divided Island. www.koralydimitriadis.com |
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