 Ravi Varma's poems ignored the metre and used free verse and he was one among the group of poets who pioneered modernism in Malayalam literature.His oeuvre consists of several poems compiled under three anthologies, translation of four novels from Tamil which include two of Sundara Ramaswamy and one of Rajathi Salma, two books of translation of Tamil poetry and an edited work of poems of young writers.It was Ravi Varma who translated the "Bhakthi poems" on the Malayalam calendar in vattezhuthu script published by Moozhikulam Sala.