Love and F**k Poems

***Longlisted for the Poetry Book Awards (UK), 2024***

***Winner best book of narrative poetry Legacy Book Awards, American Book Fest, 2025

Sexually repressed, separated Greek Girl on a rampage. There's no love here just f--ks. But is she f--king him or f--king herself? Initially a self-published zine, which sold out repeatedly, Love and F--k Poems became a revamped Deluxe Edition book, and went on to be an Australian poetry bestseller, also translated into Greek. Love and F--k Poems continues to shock, captivate and enthral with this special ten-year anniversary edition, which incorporates Koraly's original zine drawings and one extra poem. A trailblazing story told through poetry of migrant culture, divorce, repression, dating, relationships, love, and the maddening scurry to find the sexual self. "I am so obsessed with Koraly. Her work is disarming, emotionally fearless and she sounds like nobody else alive. I will read her poetry forever." - Hera Lindsay Bird, bestselling poet, Pamper Me to Hell and Back "An emotional self-examination with a hand-mirror." - AU Review "One of the brightest stars in the new poetry scene...A traditionalist's nightmare...searingly honest explorations of life..." - Junkee "A voice that literally demands to be heard." - Overland literary journal "Love and F--k Poems is raw, audacious and courageous. Bravo!" - Christos Tsiolkas, award-winning author, The Slap.

"Koraly Dimitriadis is a poet of the finest balance. She writes with the tenderness of a loving hand and a fist that smashes oppression," Tony Birch, bestselling author, White Girl, and Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature.

Koraly Dimitriadiss Love and Fck Poems (the anniversary edition) has just won first place for narrative poetry at the Legacy Book Awards, American Book Fest. Her poetry film "Yiayia mou" (my grandmother), which is published in Just Give Me The Pills, won first prize at the Monologues and Poetry International Film Festival in LA.

*https://neoskosmos.com/en/2025/07/17/life/books/koraly-dimitriadis-first-poetry-book-celebrated-at-2025-legacy-book-awards/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLlcu1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3eFd2RlJqcXlMQmx4UklEAR6nuMDzBYj7ezfEhj7Fo5plZzMYGFWQtHyckkDefbbS_DScT28z2jvviLm6eg_aem_CBg3CQC5KHR2mW_t8Px4cA

* https://greekherald.com.au/culture/cypriot-australian-koraly-dimitriadis-wins-us-poetry-award/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLldIZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiwL3mJa8Dbe7EcO_pq3nqaxrCbF-AaTeHpB6euDLkMkiM6gyCi0axadkHiG_aem_Dq_D_IFFOKx_GWb4cX8iLA