Poetry London (1939–1951)

Not to be confused with the magazine Poetry London, published from 1988 to present.

Poetry London: A Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism was a leading London-based literary periodical published intermittently between 1939 and 1951. ^[1] It was edited by Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu. ^[1]

Contributors included Dylan Thomas, Herbert Read, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Lawrence Durrell and Kathleen Raine.

References

1. 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.