AMBIT Magazine No. 20 (1964) - includes "Martin's Mag" by William Burroughs

Martin Bax (Edited by), William Burroughs et al (Contributors)

Verlag: Ambit, 62 Hornsey Lane, London, N.6., 1964

Beschreibung

Ambit Number 20, published in 1964. Includes a two-page illustrated spread of "Martin's Mag" by William Burroughs - plus Anselm Hollo's long poem sequence "Heads to Appear" illustrated by Barry Hall, and Zulfikar Ghose reviews Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings" + B. S. Johnson reviews books by Brian Higgins, Jeremy Robson & Keith Wright. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***222mm x 165mm. 56 pages. ***Contents - George Macbeth "The Ski Murders"; Colin Ward "Two Poems"; Max Cannon "Transition Down Under"; Samuel Bingham "The Death Ash Movement"; Taner Baybars "Four Poems"; Oswell Blakeston "Retrospect 12"; Keith Musgrove "Some People"; William Burroughs "Martin's Mag"; Anselm Hollo "Heads to Appear"; Barry Hall "Upon Stands"; Friere Wright "Three Drawings"; Robin Harland "Reviews MacNiece"; Zulfikar Ghose "Reviews Larkin" (B. S. Johnson doesn't appear in the Contents). ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the work of William Burroughs, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PB469

Bibliografische Details

Titel: AMBIT Magazine No. 20 (1964) - includes "...

Verlag: Ambit, 62 Hornsey Lane, London, N.6.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1964

Einband: Original Wraps

Illustrator: Max Cannon, Barry Hall, Friere Wright

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued

Auflage: First Edition