Hello everyone, next Tuesday night is Passionate Tongues Poetry night! And the feature performer is Koraly Dimitriadis.

Koraly... what can I say? She's Not Normal. No wait that's her newest book. What I can say about her though is she's extraordinary. A talent who must be heard. Here's proof:

Known for her fearlessness as a feminist voice for the southern-European diaspora, 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 Fk Poems (also translated into Greek), Just Give Me The Pills and her recently launced She's Not Normal. Her debut short story collection The Mother Must Die, is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in 2024. Her latest poetry film, Yiayia mou (my grandmother), was a finalist for the Multicultural Film Festival and is currently streaming on SBS-on-demand. In 2019 she was the recipient of the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow for her debut fiction manuscript. Koraly's opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Aljazeera. www.koralydimitriadis.com

Told you.

There will be open mic of course. Plus the famous hospitality of The Brunswick Green. See you there.