Ambit, Issue 95, 1983

This issue includes an excerpt from the William S. Burroughs workshops in Boulder, Naropa Institute, 1981/2, "The Burroughs Workshops", reported by John Bassett, pp. 40-43. This is accompanied by an uncredited photo of William S. Burroughs [by Bassett?]

Published in London, England by Ambit in 1983.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C527
• Raven 19830000AMBI.0.95, b18

Contents:

• Clare Jarrett: drawings
• Michael Foreman: 
• collages
• drawings
• André Breton and Phillippe [sic, Philippe] Soupault: "The Magnetic Fields" (prose, translated by David Gascoyne)
• Laura Knight: painting
• Carol Ann Duffy: 
• "Poker in the Falklands with Henry & Jim" (poetry)
• "Where we came in" (poetry)
• "Before you jump (for Mister Berryman)" (poetry)
• "Words of Absolution" (poetry)
• Vanessa Jackson: prints
• Giuliano Dego:
• "Oxfam" (poetry)
• "Always Ready for a Psalm (Commemorating the Resistance)" (poetry)
• Giuliano Gramigna: "From the (Portable) Rite of Sleep" (poetry, translated by Dego)
• Gilberto Finzi: 
• "Hair" (poetry, translated by Dego)
• "Common Sense" (poetry, translated by Dego)
• H. C. Artman: "from Green-Sealed Message" (prose, translated by Derek Wynand)
• Michael Krüger: 
• "In the Heart of the City" (poetry, translated by Agnes Stein)
• "What Times These Are" (poetry, translated by Agnes Stein)
• Agnes Stein: "On the Wind" (poetry)
• Humphrey Evans: "Conversation Piece" (prose)
• Eugene Dubnov:
• "from Osip Mandelstam" (poetry)
• "They Understand Nothing" (poetry)
• Helen Chadwick: "Solid Objects" (art)
• John Bassett and William S. Burroughs: "The Burroughs Workshops" (interview)
• Earle Birney:
• "Looking Up" (poetry)
• "family picnic: gran canaria" (poetry)
• "Divorcing" (poetry)
• "My Love Is Young" (poetry)
• Michael Moorcock: "The Fifth Hollywood Letter" (letter)
• Wes Magee: 
• "The Love Market" (poetry)
• "Blue Movie" (poetry)
• "In the Betting Shop" (poetry)
• David Tipton: 
• "The Tyrant" (poetry)
• "Travel Again" (poetry)
• "Panacea" (poetry)
• Deborah Levy: "Tango Through the Green Tanks" (prose)
• Terence Heywood: "Slowcoach" (poetry)
• Herbert Lomas: review of Burned Books by Ken Smith
• Neil Curry: 
• review of Unpacking Mr, Jones by John Latham
• review of News from the Front by D. M. Thomas and Sylvia Kantaris
• Martin Bax:
• review of Sweet & Sour by Christopher Logue
• review of Poems by Philip Oakes
• Gerda Mayer:
• "The Lumpy and Oatfish Girl" (poetry)
• "Mrs K's Letter" (poetry)
• "Male Butterflies Court Falling Leaves" (poetry)
• "To Pip, My Cat" (poetry)
• "Seafarer" (poetry)
• Charles Roff: "In Cornwall" (photographs)
• Michael Roche:
• "She in Sun" (poetry)
• "Moons Dog" (poetry)
• "Bridal Bits" (poetry)
• "Snug Poem" (poetry)
• Adrian Henri: 
• review of Bump-Starting the Hearse by Kit Wright
• review of The Virgin and the Nightingale by Fleur Adcock
• review of Selected Poems by Fleur Adcock
• unstated: review of A World of Difference by Norman McCaig
• Henry Graham: "Overdrawn." (poetry)
• Charles Shearer: drawings
• Robert Calvert: 
• "Deck-Chairs" (poetry)
• "Crane Fly" (poetry)
• Ron Sandford: drawings of Christopher Logue

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Martin Bax
• Poetry: Edwin Brock, Henry Graham
• Art: Michael Foreman
• Prose: J. G. Ballard
• Theatre: Irving Wardle
• Music: Henry Lowther
• et al