Word: tambi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subpatron of the Arts. Tambimuttu (Tambi to intimates), born in Ceylon, educated at a Roman Catholic college, is no stranger to the West. Tambi settled in London in 1937 at the age of 21, and within two years launched Poetry London on a ?5 shoestring. The magazine went broke on the second issue, but Tambi kept it alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron...
From the time he took in the New York skyline in 1952, Tambi thought of erecting an intercontinental "skyscraper of poetry." Poetry London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line...
...Bully Them." The odds are that Poetry London-New York will not prove the securest of jobs for Tambi. But the initial printing of 4,000 copies sold out; a supplementary printing of 2,000 was going fast at week's end, and readers got a good 75? worth. Among the familiar universal themes of love, life, courage, birth and death, the magazine tucks in such old-fashioned surprises full of simpler merits as a bit of verse called The Rift by Walter de la Mare...
Best of the newcomers is Britain's Chris topher Logue, who brings to the naked charms of his ladylove the sensual splendors of The Song of Solomon. For other issues, Tambi hopes to secure poems from Dame Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot...
...time I finished the article, I had the distinct impression that TIME had made rather extensive use of our recently published book T. S. Eliot: A Symposium. This is a Festschrift gathered together on the occasion of Mr. Eliot's 60th birthday by Richard March and Tambi-muttu...