Shetty's poetry is seen as being an integral part of the "chronology of modern Indian English poetry,"[REF] with these third-generation English language poets moving "away from radical modernist techniques.
K. Narayana Chandran of the University of Hyderabad, while reviewing[REF] Shetty's Domestic Creatures in World Literature Today, comments: "To be able to write magnificently about the little world one knows - and what passionate care all this involves - is no small gift for a poet.