In Conversation with Prema Arasu
A poetic dive into the mysterious deep sea
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The deep sea – home of the uncanny vampire squid – is fathomless and mysterious, but so too are the scientists who observe the creatures of the deep.
Prema Arasu joins us in store to discuss their wry and witty poetry collection, Vampire Squid, which examines the relationship between humans and the deep sea as the poet places their colleagues under the microscope to draw attention not only to the teeming life beneath the sea, but the distinctive ways that oceanographer, geoscientist, taxonomist, marine biologist and geneticist interpret the same world through very different eyes.
Drinks and nibbles will be served, and books will be available to buy on the night with Prema signing after the talk.
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About the author:
Prema Arasu is a writer and academic at the Deep-Sea Research Centre at the University of Western Australia. Their research utilises transdisciplinary and creative methods to investigate the aesthetics of the deep sea. Prema has a PhD in Creative Writing and continues to teach English and Literary Studies at UWA. They have published stories, poems and scholarly articles on the deep sea, video games, gender, weird fiction and monsters. In 2023, Prema’s fantasy novel, The Anatomy of Witchcraft, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award. In 2025, Prema released two books: The Book of Sea Monsters and Vampire Squid.