Collected Poems

Ezekiel s poetry described love loneliness lust creativity and political pomposity human foibles and the kindred clamour of urban dissonance. He echoed England s postwar Movement (Philip Larkin DJ Enright and Ted Hughes) but honed a distinct ironic voice moving from strict metre to free verse. -- Lawrence Joffe The Guardian his tight rhymed quatrains...displayed a wry dryly mischievous sense of humour and an eye that was observant and sympathetic at once. -- Dom Moraes Outlook He was a poet of the heart of failure of doubt of the unquiet mind the emptiness within someone who revelled in rodent-like explorations of love. -- Keki N Daruwalla The Hindu By absorbing the lessons of modernism and making his poetic debut in an idiom that remains fresh after 50 years he showed the way to his younger contemporaries...Someone in a mood for coining phrases could justifiably identify all contemporary Indian English poets as the tribe of Ezekiel . -- Kaiser Haq University of Dhaka Nissim Ezekiel radicalised the subject matter of poetry