Ambit, Issue 20, 1964

 

This issue contains a 2-page spread “Martin’s Mag” by William S. Burroughs.

Published in London, England by Ambit in 1964.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks, acquired through his estate.

Bibliographic Information:

• Maynard & Miles C92
• Shoaf III.64
• Schottlaender v4.C64
• Raven 19640000AMBI.0.20, b16

Selected Contents:

• Martin C. O. Bax: "Keeping Things Fluid" (editorial)
• George MacBeth: "The Ski Murders" (an "encyclopedia-poem")
• Colin Ward: "Two Poems":
• "Children's Game" (poetry)
• "After Kafka" (poetry)
• Max Cannon: "Transition Down-Under" (prose)
• Samuel Bingham: "The Death Ash Movement" (prose)
• Taner Baybars: "Four Poems":
• "Expectancy" (poetry)
• "Victors in a Helicopter" (poetry)
• "Homo Sapiens" (poetry)
• "Fertility" (poetry)
• Oswell Blakeston: "Retrospect 12: Soma" (review/essay)
• Keith Musgrove: "Some People" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Martin's Mag" (prose)
• Anselm Hollo: "Heads to Appear on the Stands" (poetry)
• Barry Hall: drawings
• Friere Wright: drawings
• Robin Harland: review of Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice
• Zulfikar Ghose: review of The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
• B. S. Johnson: combined review of Notes While Travelling by Brian Higgins, Thirty Three Poems by Jeremy Robson, and Western Time by Keith Wright

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Martin Bax
• Assistant Editor: Robin Harland
• Poetry: Edwin Brock
• Art: Mike Foreman, Jean-Pierre Voos
• Advertising: Alec Worster
• Manchester Editor: Tony Connor
• Business: Judy Bax
• Distribution: Janet Harland