FREE AUDIOBOOK
Read by the Author, Luka Lesson.
The Future Ancients: Unleashing the Power of Rap and Spoken Word.
In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of his first book: The Future Ancients, author Luka Lesson expertly reads the collection in a new and exclusive audiobook, free for your ears to hear.
LIMITED TIME ONLY.
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"Simple, honest, rebellion"
The poetry and rap verses from Luka Lesson's debut book The Future Ancients have amassed 500,000 views across all platforms.
Meet the Author.
Luka Lesson is a poet, rapper and educator of Greek heritage born in Brisbane. His work crosses between the history of his family homeland, the fiercely political and the vulnerably self-reflective. Luka's performances have been touted as some of the greatest examples of spoken word and rap the country has seen.
A former Australian Poetry Slam Champion (2011), Luka has featured at the mecca for slam poetry: Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (NYC), performed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and toured with respected UK rappers Akala & Lowkey. Luka has released three collections of poetry independently:
The Future Ancients (2013), Antidote (2015) and now, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love (2023).
Praise.
"Luka is a genuine artist of high quality whose words are powerful and poignant. I salute his prophetic witness"
- Dr Cornel West (Philosopher)
"Luka is the kind of poet other poets want to be. Other poets want to be honest"
- Shane Koyczan (Poet)
"Words make worlds, Luka knows this. His mouth is a creation story and we are all better for it"
- Dominique Christina (Poet)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
THE FUTURE ANCIENTS
Luka Lesson's first collection of poetry and rap verses, published in 2013, takes us into the catacombs of ancient history, the unabashed political opinion of a poet raised in the Pauline Hanson era, the deep reflections of a storyteller hell-bent on finding his truth and the musings of a rapper who really is just a romantic at heart.
The words rumble in your gut, kick up dust and shoot from the mouth of a poet who shows no fear in speaking his truth.
The Future Ancients contains the two poems that won Luka Lesson the Australian Poetry Slam Final in 2011:
The Confluence and The New Crusades
as well as other well-known works such as...
Please Resist Me
May Your Pen Grace The Page
Amber Lights
Yiayia
A to Z
Scars
Athena
History Books
The Fifth Season
Feathers
& the title piece: The Future Ancients.
“Luka Lesson's work is most importantly simple, honest, rebellion. The stuff that all great art is made from. His poems are fistfights with history, the truthful telling of it, honest Hellenic hip hop anthems sung from between the parts of your textbooks your teachers warned you about.”
- Ken Arkind
Minor Disturbance Youth Slam
Colorado, USA
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