Ambit, Issue 30, July 1966

Includes "My Barbouze" by Francis Fytton, pp. 8-19, in which the author recounts visiting with "Warren" in the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris. "Warren" is clearly William S. Burroughs, who appears in pages 11-15.

At page 13 is a drawing of what clearly appears to be William S. Burroughs.

Published in London, England by Ambit in July, 1966.

This item was brought to my attention by James Pennington, with my deep thanks.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in M&M
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19660700AMBI.0.30

Selected Contents: 

• news
• Peter Porter: 
• "The Thirteen Couplets" (poetry)
• "The Return of Inspector Christopher Smart" (poetry)
• Jonathan Magonet: "On Psychiatric Grounds" (poetry)
• David Chaloner: "Poem 3" (poetry)
• Francis Fytton: "My Barbouze" (prose, w/drawing)
• Donald Ward: "Heart Case" (poetry)
• Richard Freeman:
• "Ten lines for a young child" (poetry)
• "Meerschweinchen, n. Guinea-pig" (poetry)
• George Macbeth: 
• "The Silver Needle" (comic for Burne-Jones)
• "The Call of Attila" (poetry)
• "Attila and the Grey Sisters" (poetry)
• "The Finding of Medulla" (poetry)
• "The Rock of Doom" (poetry)
• "The Doom Fulfilled" (poetry)
• "The Baleful Head" (poetry)
• Geoffrey Prowse: drawings
• Nathaniel Tarn: "The King Returns" (poetry)
• Anselm Hollo: "E(1) E(2) It" (poetry/review of David Wevill's A Christ of the Ice-Floes and Lewis MacAdams Jr.'s City Money)
• Robert Sward: "In Mexico" (poetry)
• Richard Freeman: "Snooker Player" (poetry)
• Robert Angus: 
• "Not a thing, Bush, to bother about" (poetry)
• "Gone to Earth" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Martin Bax
• Assistant Editor: Robin Harland
• Poetry Editor: Edwin Brock
• Art Editor: Mike Foreman
• Prose Editor: J. G. Ballard
• Manchester Associate: Tony Connor
• Advertising: Alec Worster
• Business: Judy Bax
• Distribution: Janet Harland, Barry Cole