Luka Lesson // Books

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a poetry and Hip-hop theatre show turned verse-novella - inspired by the 7 Ancient Greek words for love.

Written by poet & rapper, Luka Lesson and published in 2022, the book is equal parts rap verse collection, poetic narrative & classical history lesson.

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love shows us how loves prevails despite the trials and tribulations of the ages.

Set in both modern and Ancient Greece, self-love, erotic love, familial love, the love of the stranger and more all collide with statues of Aphrodite, Molotov cocktails and the Parthenon's steps.

The primordial gods: Chaos & Cosmos, watch over the two sets of lovers as they dance with destiny in the same city. but in very different times - until eventually, the gods intervene.

“Luka Lesson is a sonic literary genius”

- Taylor Mali

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love

Antidote is Luka Lesson’s second collection of poetry and rap verses (2015) that presents itself as a salve for our troubled times.

This short and sharp collection asks the deepest of questions, stirring the snake from its nest and creating a brave soundtrack to shedding our skins, taking stock of who we are and having the courage to head back into the fray.

The poems in Antidote bounce from dealing with depression and anxiety (Bones), to politics and uprising (Anonymous & Subcomandante Marcos), and the power of our words to have powerfully affect our realities (Antidote).

In Antidote, Luka’s words punch above their weight, as he writes:

“It’s not the bigger they are / the harder they fall / it’s actually / the smaller we are / the harder we brawl”

“All of Luka Lesson's books are literary poetic magic.”

- Thea Rose

Antidote

The Future Ancients is Luka Lesson's first collection of poetry and rap verses. The collection takes the reader into the catacombs of ancient history, the unabashed political opinion of a Greek-Australian poet raised in the Pauline Hanson era, and the reflections of a rapper who is starting to admit that he might actually be a romantic at heart.

The collection includes such works as:

Yiayia
May Your Pen Grace The Page
Please Resist Me
The Confluence
Amber Lights
Athena
The New Crusades
A to Z
and more.

The words will rumble in your gut, kick dust in your face and lead to a lounge of lyrical luxury.

“Luka Lesson is the kind of poet other poets want to be. Other poets want to be honest”

- Shane Koyczan

The Future Ancients