Under Orion

Under Orion, Keki N. Daruwalla's first book of poems, immediately won critical acclaim. Nissim Ezekiel, the doyen of Indian poets writing in English, hailed it enthusiastically, comparing the volume favourably with the first publications of Dom Moraes and A.K. Ramanujan. He wrote, Under Orion is impressive evidence not only of mature poetic talent but of literary stamina, intellectual strength of mind and social awareness. Darulwalla's poetry finds its own form in a fine blend of freedom and discipline, metrical rhythms and the word order of prose, compact, harsh alliterative phrasing and relaxed movement.