Name Gieve Patel | Role Poet | |
Education Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals Books Mirrored, Mirroring, Mister Behram and Other Plays | ||
On killing a tree by gieve patel poetry
Gieve Patel (born 18 August 1940) is an Indian poet, playwright, painter, as well as a practicing physician/doctor based in Mumbai.
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- On killing a tree by gieve patel poetry
- Gieve patel interview by parul chandigarh lalit kala akademi
- Education and life
- Career
- References
Gieve patel interview by parul chandigarh lalit kala akademi
Education and life
Patel was born in 1940 in Mumbai. He was educated at St. Xavier's High School and Grant Medical College, Mumbai. He lives in Mumbai where he is a general practitioner.
Career
Patel's poetry works include Poems, first launched by Nissim Ezekiel followed by How Do You Withstand, Body and Mirrored Mirroring. His plays include Princes, Savaksa and Mr Behram.
He held his first show in Mumbai in 1966 that went on to have several major exhibitions in India and abroad. Patel participated in the Menton Biemale, France in 1976. India, Myth and Reality, Oxford in 1982; Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy, London 1982. Patel belongs to an avant-garde grouping of artists based in Bombay and Baroda.
Patel has also exhibited for Contemporary Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York City, 1985, Indian Art from the Herwitz collection Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1985 and Coups de Coeur Geneva, 1987.
He has been conducting a poetry workshop in Rishi Valley School for more than a decade. He edited a collection of poetry which was published in 2006. His poetry is included in Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (BigBridge, United States). One of his Poems "Licence" from the collection How do you Withstand is included in the anthology Confronting Love edited by Arundhati Subramanyam and Jerry Pinto.