Gieve Patel was born in 1940 in Mumbai. He is a poet, playwright and painter, as well as a doctor by profession. He has written three books of poetry.
– Poems (1966)
– How Do You Withstand (1976)
– Body and Mirrored Mirroring(1991)
He has three plays to his credit. They are Princes, Savaksa and Mr Behram. He has held several exhibitions of his paintings in India and abroad. He lives in Mumbai. His poetry collection Poems was first launched by Nissim Ezekiel.
He belongs to a group of writers who have subscribed themselves to the 'Green Movement', which is involved in an effort to protect the environment. His poems speak of deep concerns for nature and expose man's cruelty to it.
Themes in his Poems
Gieve Patel is known as the poet of the body since the human body is a common theme in many of his poems. Social inequalities of caste and class that still play an important role in India, the difficulties of the subaltern people, ecological concerns etc., were the recurring themes in his poems.
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