Utpal's oeuvre is as wide and vivid as his travels. His poetic craft is quietly iconoclastic in its deglorification of the artistic position of the poem. At the same time, the poem carefully allows for retention of poetic speech and valor. A world, as if seen through the eyes of a migratory bird, where nature exists amidst its wastefulness and tribes of lesser known ordinary people of a cultural variety, punctuate his imagery. One critic calls his poetic language "mashed" while another describes it as "nomadic".