History, Migration and Cyprus: a poetry evening with Koraly Dimitriadis
Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 19:00
As part of the "Journeys to Cyprus" exhibition: artists at the Paphos Theatre Excavation, join Australian poet, writer and performer Koraly Dimitriadis as she presents her award-winning poetry film Yiayia mou (my grandmother) and performs some of her poetry related to being the daughter of Cypriot migrants in the Australian diaspora.
This event begins with an open mic where the audience is invited to share their own poem on the theme and ends with a discussion and Q&A with Koraly and poetry slam champion Maria Kouvarou.
Places are limited, so please register your attendance and inform us if you cannot attend.
Reservations email info@outsidetheboxpress.com with your name and contact information and number of attendees.
KORALY DIMITRIADIS is an award-winning, best-selling poet, writer and actor who creates poetic film/theatre. As the daughter of working-class migrants from Cyprus, Koraly explores political and feminist subjects such as single parenting, divorce, repression, intergenerational trauma, violence against women, and identity, with raw vulnerability, to shift narratives suppressing the marginalised. She is the author of poetry books Love & F--k Poems (2012) long-listed for Poetry Book Awards UK (2024) also translated into Greek, She’s Not Normal (2024), Just Give Me The Pills (2018) winner best book of narrative poetry American Book Fest (2024), and the short story collection The Mother Must Die (2024). Koraly's vast opinion articles/personal essays have been published globally, including The Age, Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Today.
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