Poetry London [also known as 'Poetry'; and 'Poetry (London)']. Edited by Tambimuttu and Anthony Dickens (two issues), then Tambimuttu only (fourteen issues), then Tambimuttu and Richard March (one issue), then Richard March and Nicholas Moore (eight issues). TAMBIMUTTU (edits).

First editions. The complete run of 23 issues of Tambimuttu's renowned and influential irregular periodical of verse and criticism, plus the full-run (four issues) of its successor 'Poetry London-New York' (1956-1960), and also the short-lived final gasp 'Poetry London / Apple Magazine' (two issues only, appearing in 1979 and 1982), and also the limited casebound issue of 'Poetry London / Apple Magazine', signed by both Tambimuttu and Graham Sutherland (this being #84 of 150 copies). First editions. 4to. All in the original stapled card wrappers, bar issue #10 which was issued in a cloth binding and housed in a dust wrapper. The wrappers featuring artwork submitted by Hector Whistler, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Gerald Wilde, Fahr-El-Nissa Zeid, Alexander Calder, John Piper and others. Some of the staples rusted, with some spotting to the wrappers of the inaugural issue, and some quite light toning and soiling to the wrappers of some subsequent issues. Some light and occasional fox spotting. A tiny sliver of loss to the lower edge of the front wrapper of issue #17. The wrapper of issue #16 detached but present. A very good set of this cornerstone of 1940s verse. Includes contributions from George Barker, Walter de la Mare, Laurence Whistler, Herbert Read, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Gavin Ewart, Lawrence Durrell, Nicholas Moore, Dylan Thomas, Charles Madge, David Gascoyne, Ruthven Todd, Paul Potts, Idris Davies, Anne Ridler, Kathleen Raine, Henry Treece, James Kirkup, G. S. Fraser, Alun Lewis, Frances Scarfe, Vernon Watkins, Julian Symons, Norman Nicholson, Keith Douglas, W. S. Graham, Geoffrey Grigson, John Heath-Stubbs, Sidney Keyes, Terence Tiller, David Wright, Herbert Corby, Wrey Gardiner, Boris Pasternak, F. T. Prince, Charles Williams, Henry Miller, Brenda Chamberlain, Iain Fletcher, Roland Mathias, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R. S. Thomas, Mervyn Peake (eight of his full-page Ancient Mariner drawings), Bernard Spencer, T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Edwin Muir, Thomas Blackburn, Eugenio Montale, Donald Davie, Wallace Stevens, Valentine Ackland, Harold Pinter (who appears twice as 'Harold Pinta'), Edwin Morgan, Charles Tomlinson, Dorothy Wellesley, Gamel Woolsey, Graham Sutherland (three magnificent colour lithographs in issue #9), Ceri Richards (three magnificent colour lithographs in issue #11), W. S. Merwin, W. H. Auden, Roy Campbell, Richard Eberhart, e. e. cummings, William Empson, Robert Graves, Christopher Logue, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, May Sarton, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Iris Murdoch, Federico García Lorca, Brian Patten, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Alan Sillitoe, C. H. Sisson, Henri Michaux, &c., &c., &c.