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"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. From the author of the Australian poetry bestseller, Love and F--k Poems, Just Give Me The Pills is yet another brilliant novel-in-verse by Koraly Dimitriadis, and this special illustrated edition includes drawings by Koraly’s daughter. Exploring the challenges of leaving a marriage, divorce, co-parenting, single motherhood, Just Give Me The Pills is a story told through poetry of a woman’s liberation from the chains of migrant culture and repression, and the terror or realising all the choices you’ve ever made are those you were expected to make, and you have no idea who you really are. It’s a story of being silenced, of reclaiming your voice, rebuilding, and finding one’s true 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. ""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. "

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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 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. "

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Koraly Dimitriadis is a Cypriot-Australian writer, performer and author of the poetry books Love and Fuck Poems and Just Give Me The Pills. Her poems have been translated and published in Polish, Czech, Greek and Greek-Cypriot journals and anthologies, and she has had short stories, essays and poems published in Southerly, Etchings, Overland, Unusual Works, Social Alternatives, Meanjin, Solid Air (UQP), Resilience (Ultimo/Mascara), Foyer (UK), Harana (UK), Fuck Poems (USA) and others. Koraly’s poetry films have been shortlisted for prizes, screened at festivals and televised. Koraly has performed internationally, including The Poetry Café (London) and The Bowery (New York). Koraly’s poetic theatre monologue “I say the wrong things all the time” premiered at La Mama in 2016. Koraly was an associate artist at Theatre Works in 2021. She performed as part of Outer Urban Projects’s theatre ensemble Poetic License for numerous years which included productions at Melbourne Writers Festival (Footscray Community Arts Centre) and 45 Downstairs. Koraly’s personal essays and opinion articles have been published widely across Australia in publications such as ABC, SBS, The Age and News.com.au, with international publications in The Independent (UK), Shondaland, The Guardian, The Washington Post and Al Jazeera. Koraly is a professional member to the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Koraly’s debut fiction manuscript, We Never Said Goodbye, was awarded the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow. She was also awarded residencies at the Wheeler Centre, Chantilly, HOANI (Cyprus) and Moreland Council. Koraly holds a diploma in professional writing/editing (RMIT) and a double degree in accounting/computing (Monash). She has spoken on panels, run workshops, taught poetry at RMIT, and has been interviewed on television and radio including ABC’s The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine. www.koralydimitriadis.com

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