Cordite is chuffed (once again) to announce that, joining Rosalind McFarlane, Amelia Dale and Joan Fleming as commissioning editors, Prithvi Varatharajan is joining the Cordite Poetry Review fold as commissioning editor for media poetry.

Prithvi Varatharajan holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, where he completed a thesis on the adaptation of contemporary Australian poetry by ABC RN’s Poetica, paying particular attention to its adaptations of John Forbes, Ouyang Yu, Vicki Viidikas and Ali Cobby Eckermann. He is a producer of cultural radio programs and audio books, and has produced for Red Room Company, RN’s Poetica, Earshot, Lingua Franca, Weekend Arts and First Person. His writing (poetry, reviews, interviews, scholarship) has appeared in journals including Adaptation, Cultural Studies Review, The Quarterly Conversation, Mascara Literary Review, Asymptote, Island and Cordite Poetry Review.