In the mid-1970s, poets such as Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Arun Kolatkar came together to form a poetry publishing group called Clearing House. This was created in response to their disenchantment with the mainstream publishing industry of those times. Clearing House went on to revolutionise Indian writing in English and within a decade they published eight books on poetry, which are still remembered for their unique design and content.

The book jackets that sport iconic square format designs by Arun Kolatkar