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.

A second copy is also in the archive.

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