Adil JussawallaAdil Jussawalla (b. 1940) is a seminal figure in post- independence Indian poetry. After studying and working in England, he returned to India for good in the 1970s. Of Jussawalla's precocious first collection, Land's End (1962), Dom Moraes rote that it seemed [to him], and to many other poets in England, one of the most brilliant first books published since the war. His second book Missing Person, published in Bombay in 1976, is undergoing a critical renaissance in India and abroad following the re-publication in full of its central long poem sequence in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2009). Jussawalla was a founding member--along with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Arun Kolatkar and Gieve Patel--of the poets' publishing co-operative Clearing House, and the editor of an anthology of 1960s experimental Indian writing translated from many different Indian languages (New Writing from India: Penguin, 1974) that is still considered indispensible today. Read More Read Less