Prithvi Varatharajan

Prithvi Varatharajan is a poet, audio producer, and literary/media scholar who lives in Melbourne. His book of poems and prose, Entries, was published by Cordite Books in 2020. He holds a PhD from the University of Queensland about ABC Radio National’s Poetica, and he is a commissioning editor of essays at Cordite Poetry Review.
All essays by Prithvi Varatharajan
Syntactical Torque
Change Machine is an ambitious collection which has two standout accomplishments. One is its formal eclecticism and dexterity; the other is its contribution to Australian poetics in drawing on local vernacular and literary influence, and subjecting these to international currents.
Archives of Loss
Reading the losses arrayed in this anthology to write this review – even as they were tempered by expressions of joy or hope at ecological resilience, or calls for action – I felt somewhat overwhelmed. In that state, I recalled the classic Freudian account of melancholy as a mourning of loss that becomes pathological, because it is perpetual.