Delamarina began writing as a schoolboy. Travel recollections of his appeared in Familia in 1893, and the following year, Valeriu Branişte published his poems in the Timișoara journal Dreptatea. By virtue of these poems' being written in the Banat subdialect of Romanian, Delamarina introduced a new trend in Romanian poetry: the use of written subdialect. A number of literary historians underlined the importance of his contribution, including Titu Maiorescu, Ilarie Chendi, I. D. Suciu, Gabriel Țepelea, George Muntean, Al. Bistrițeanu and Virgil Vintilescu. The latter published a study of his life and work in 1967.[2]
He died in 1896, aged 25, in Petroasa Mare village near his birthplace, and was buried in Lugoj.[3]