Into the unknown on the Fremantle Press podcast: Prema Arasu on poetry, the deep sea and the vampire squid

January 06, 2026 00:21:33
Into the unknown on the Fremantle Press podcast: Prema Arasu on poetry, the deep sea and the vampire squid
The Fremantle Press Podcast
Into the unknown on the Fremantle Press podcast: Prema Arasu on poetry, the deep sea and the vampire squid

Jan 06 2026 | 00:21:33

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Claire Miller Helen Milroy Georgia Richter Brooke Dunnell

Show Notes

Writer and academic Prema Arasu joins the podcast to talk about their debut poetry collection, Vampire Squid. The collection, written during Prema’s post-doc fellowship at the UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, explores how we imagine the deep sea – a place we often perceive as eerie and unknowable. Prema explains why they were drawn to poetry, the ways in which they relate to the elusive vampire squid, and reads some poems from the book. Show notes About Prema Prema Arasu is a writer and academic at the Deep-Sea Research Centre at the University of Western Australia. Their research utilises transdisciplinary and […]

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