Spring in Step: poetry in motion

Carlton, Woiwurrung Country, 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Join Readings’ own Ender Başkan as he pulls together poets and words for your entertainment. Join us for wine and words….

Koraly Dimitriadis is a Cypriot-Australian writer, performer and bestselling poet who creates film and theatre with her poetry. Creating art from the standpoint of the daughter of working-class migrants from postcolonial Cyprus, Koraly’s practice explores political and feminist subjects such as single parenting, divorce, cultural/religious repression, chronic illness, violence against women and identity, with raw vulnerability, to shift narratives suppressing the marginalised. She is the author of the poetry books Love and F**k Poems, Just Give Me The Pills and She's Not Normal. Her debut short story collection The Mother Must Die, is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in October. Her latest poetry film, Yiayia mou (my grandmother), is currently streaming on SBS-on-demand. 

Gareth Morgan is the author of When A Punk Becomes a Spunk and Dear Eileen, and a codirector of Sick Leave.

Gabriel Curtin is an artist, writer and editor. His work broadly considers poetry's ability to locate and enact relations unencumbered by policy. His work can be found in Minarets, Rabbit, Cordite, unMagazine, Infrastructural Inequalities, Unusual Work, Borderlands, Vre Books and Art+ Austalia. He was a finalist for the 2021 NT Literary Awards (poetry), was highly commended in the 2017 W.B Yeats poetry prize and the recipient of the Northern Territory Writers Festival residency 2022.

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Cover image for The Mother Must Die

The Mother Must Die

Koraly Dimitriadis

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