Koraly Dimitriadis
Koraly is a Cypriot-Australian poet, writer and performer. Award-winning, best-selling poet, author of the poetry books Love & Fck Poems, Just Give Me The Pills, She’s Not Normal, and the short story collection The Mother Must Die. Koraly makes theatre and films which her poems. Her theatre show "I say the wrong things all the time" was staged at La Mama. Her films have won prizes internationally and have been screened on SBS and The Opera House. Her opinion writing/personal essays has been published widely including The Today Show, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera.
Poetry, short stories
Love and Fck Poems, Just Give Me The Pills, She's Not Normal, The Mother Must Die
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. Perhaps she needs to return to her medication, the pills she stopped taking to become pregnant. She was taking them for six years. She wasn’t allowed to move out of home so she married at twenty-two. Now she is thirty, and it’s as if she is looking at her life for the very first time. She is starting to see things. 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.
