Luka Lesson
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love
Official Book Launch
Greek-Australian poet and rapper, Luka Lesson, launches his new verse novel: Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, surrounded by the Ancient Greek artefacts at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, for one night only.
For this special event, Luka will combine the Ancient Greek types of love embedded within the pages of this book with a curated selection of Ancient Greek artefacts in the Museum, in a performance that is set to awaken the spirits lying dormant in the building.
Books can be ordered with tickets below and picked up at the venue with receipt of purchase.
This event is being live-streamed worldwide for those who cannot attend, click the link below to register.
"Luka is a genuine artist of high quality whose poetry is powerful and poignant. I salute his prophetic witness"
- Dr Cornel West
Author of 'Race Matters'
Luka Lesson
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love
Book Orders
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is poet and rapper Luka Lesson's verse novel, inspired by Plato's Symposium.
Socrates is telling a banquet of friends about his secret lover named Diotima. The gods then collapse time and the reader is taken on a journey through the Ancient Greek types of love, as seen through the eyes of ancient lovers: Socrates and Diotima, and their modern reincarnations: Pavlos and Sophia.
Self-love, erotic love, and the love of the stranger all collide with marble statues of Aphrodite, protestor's chants and the Parthenon's steps.
Equal parts rap novella and classical history lesson, in Agapi & Other Kinds of Love Luka Lesson draws on his heritage to show us how love prevails despite the trials and tribulations of the ages.
"Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a romance throughout space and time told in rolling verse. With an excellent rhythm and natural flow, the story expertly weaves the stories together..." ~Anonymous Review
"Luka never fails to delight in this
vibrant and beautiful dive into love"
- Omar Sakr
Author of 'The Lost Arabs'
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Prize