Poetry London and comprised, among other drawings, a stuffed zebra and a palm tree. Tambimuttu returned to Ceylon in 1949, and in 1952 moved to the United States, where he worked as an editor, launching Poetry London – New York (1956–60), the last issue 5 including American Beat poets. He returned to London in 1968 and founded the Lyrebird Press. He died in London, aged 67. Archives of Tambimuttu's correspondence and papers are dispersed, but the largest collections are at Northwestern University and the British Library. Most of Tambimuttu's own works are difficult to access, and his earliest works published before he came to London are lost. His greatest influence was as an editor and publisher, especially during the 1940s. T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Durrell, Dylan Thomas count among his influences, while he influenced Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Smart, Nicholas Moore, Kathleen Raine, Gavin Maxwell, and George Barker. Works Poetry Natarajah: A Poem for Mr. T. S. Eliot's Sixtieth Birthday (1948), PL Pamphlets Out of this War (1941), The Fortune Press Editions T. S. Eliot: A Symposium compiled by Richard March and Tambimuttu (1948), Editions Poetry London Poetry in Wartime: An Anthology (1942), Faber and Faber India Love Poems (1977), Editions Poetry London Notes External links Page at One Hundred Tamils Tamil studies Now published in the collection: T. Wignesan. Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: On Tamils, Tamil Literature & Tamil Culture. Allahabad:Cyberwit.net, 2008, 750p. & at Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies, 2007, 439p. Tambimuttu Archive at Northwestern University Library Tambimuttu and the Poetry London Papers at the British Library: Reputation and Evidence Tambimuttu: Re-inventing the Art of Poetry Illustration at the British Library http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/meary-james-tambimuttu The Papers of Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu at the British Library https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/2358 1915 births 1983 deaths Sri Lankan Tamil poets Sri Lankan Christians 20th-century poets British people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Kingdom Book publishers (people) 20th-century British poets People from Colombo Sri Lankan expatriates in the United States