Poetry London: A Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism was a leading London-based literary periodical published intermittently between 1939 and 1951. It was edited by Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu.
Contributors included Dylan Thomas, Herbert Read, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Lawrence Durrell.
References
- ^ Tolley, A. Trevor (1985). The Poetry of the Forties in Britain. McGill–Queen's University Press. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-0-88629-028-3.
Further reading
- Tolley, A. Trevor (2007). "Chapter 10: Tambimuttu and Poetry London". British Literary Periodicals of World War II & Aftermath: A Critical History. Golden Dog Press. ISBN 978-1-894908-07-8.
- Keery, James (2009). "37. The Apocalyptic Poets, 'New Modernism' and 'The Progressive View of Art': Poetry London (1939-51) and Indian Writing (1940-2)". In Brooker, Peter; Thacker, Andrew (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921115-9.
- Dickins, Anthony. "Tambimuttu and Poetry London". London Magazine 5.8 (1965).
- Beckett, Chris (2019). "Tambimuttu and the Poetry London Papers at the British Library: Reputation and Evidence". Electronic British Library Journal.
- Ranasinha, Ruvani; Ranasinha, Senior Lecturer King's College London Ruvani (2007). South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation. Clarendon Press. pp. 118–120. ISBN 978-0-19-920777-0.
- Williams, Jane (1989). Tambimuttu: Bridge Between Two Worlds. Owen. pp. 277–282. ISBN 978-0-7206-0718-5.
- Maclaren-Ross, Julian (1991). Memoirs of the Forties. Cardinal. pp. 135–151. ISBN 978-0-7474-0765-2.