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. 
Published in 2022 at the premiere of the show at the National Museum of Australia, the book is equal parts rap verse collection, poetic narrative & classical history lesson - taking the reader on a journey unlike any other.

Set in both modern and Ancient Greece, self-love, erotic love, familial love, the love of the stranger, friendship 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. 

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

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love

The Future Ancients

The Future Ancients is Luka Lesson's first collection of poetry and rap verses. Released in 2013 , 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 takes the reader to the kitchen table of a Greek grandmother (Yiayia), to the hypocrisy of global modern warfare (New Crusades), through a maze of self-discovery (Labyrinth) into the revelation of writing and the saviour of humanity and out into the sunlight of love and learning (The Confluence). 
The Future Ancients is a collection that slips between complex rhyme schemes with intricate details and rolling rhythm, into delicate prose poems which highlight the power of metaphor, symbolism with an almost mythological undertone. 

 The words will rumble in your gut, kick dust in your face and lead you to an oasis of lyrical luxury.