Mohan Koirala has been publishing regularly in Nepalese literature journals and is now the Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Nepal Academy. He is appreciated not only for his excellent poems but for his strong influence on Nepalese poetry.  "While he may not be the first to introduce the new poetic thought in Nepal, he has made great contributions to the preservation of this tradition," comments critic Iswar Baral in an essay of 1973. "While noted poets were following the romantic tradition, Mohan Koirala gave voice to life's struggles. Therefore among the new generation of poets he is the sharpest, the most experienced, and has the greatest clarity." [Baral also states that Koirala was always influenced by the romantic poets and this attraction permeates his poetry and enriches it.

In his own words, Mohan Koirala says "The love for the fresh and respect for the old are the demands of the modern writing style. Selecting and representing these properly are at the center of my poetic efforts and give life to my poems. Life is a goal. How it is spent, what its shades must be like, and what has not happened are not conclusive [there are disagreements]. Searching for yourself by cutting yourself, pinching yourself, laughing, searching for yourself in laughter, and if there are new facts there, then the richness that flows from them and their stories dye the paint brush. This is my modernity.

"Easy poems are not modern if their style is not able to demand. In the same way poems that are difficult for difficulty's sake cannot be modern either. Yes, they can have a different importance, the poet can think in verse, she or he can be a great poet. I wish to say that modern poetry presents new thoughts and new awareness in its flow. The point I am trying to make is that even if they are written today, poems may not be modern. Modern poetry is a struggle for subject matter, struggle for craftmanship, and struggle for new thoughts, new poems."