"Poetry as "an effort to understand
An interview with Gieve Patel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179114 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anjali Nerlekar |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 25-32 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2017.1294647 |
| OpenAlex | W2742156537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this interview, conducted in Bombay in June 2015, Gieve Patel reflects on his career as a poet, playwright, publisher, artist and educator, from his first arts show in 1966 (a year which also saw the publication of his first collection of poems) to the present. Gieve Patel is also a doctor of medicine, and he discusses the significant place afforded to the human body in his work and his “aromantic” approach to the body in poetry. He recalls the vitality of Bombay as an artistic and literary centre in the 1960s and 1970s, the comradeship among artists at that time, and his involvement in the publishing house Clearing House. He is an important poet and artist in Bombay, who to this day maintains creative contacts across generations of artists
Art · Art history · Creative writing · Literature · Poetry · Publishing · Sociology · The arts · Theology · Visual arts · Vitality · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |