...The title Piano of the Deep is indicative of Varveris originality: It determines the work in its totality but also the poem of the same name, which seems to define the end or culmination of the book by summarising it...

The topic of the book is developed around the bipolarity life-death, with the two dimensions complementing each other, and with the binding power of death ultimately predominating. In the textual world of the book, time is of import mainly as the past, which stands for a valuable content of memory...

Varveris is endowed with sensibility and intelligence, which have enabled him to accrue from the onset of his writing an almost complete mythical and thematic universe. He has displayed it to us with the five books he has issued thus far, always with an impressive sense of economy, and by this I mean: density and clarity. With his last book he corroborates the conscientious process he employs in order to present this mythical universe; by creating a linguistic surface to match his choices of content...