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Fleur Adcock
Born in New Zealand 1934, and has returned for her first visit since she settled in London in 1963; she works as a librarian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Omee. Published collections include: Tigers (1967), High Tide in the Garden (1971) and The Scenic Route (1974), all from Oxford University Press.

Neil Curry
Lives in Cumbria. His versions of Euripides’ The Bacchae and The Trojan Women hare been produced and published in this country and in the United States. His poems appeared in some of the earliest numbers of Ambit.

Coleman Dowell
Now on his fourth career since 1950: (1) Songwriter for TV, night-clubs, theatre (2) Playwright (three productions) (3) ‘Serious’ novelist (4) Pornographer. He can cook, too. Address all enquiries to Ambit. (Ambit reports that his latest novel, Mrs October Was Here from New Directions, is good and The Island People, his next, is coming soon.)

Gavin Ewart
Born London, 1916. Worked as salesman, advertising copywriter, and for The British Council. Now a freelance writer and part-time teacher. Books include Poems and Songs (1939), Londoners (1964), Pleasures Of The Flesh (1966), The Deceptive Grin of The Gravel Posters (1968), The Gavin Ewarr Show (1971), Be My Guest! (1975). To be published this year: No Fool Like An Old Fool (Gollancz).

Sue Jackson
Poet - pudding maker lace and snake dealer man eater
sweet (he said it)
I like: Jim Burns      stirring petrol into muddy pools
Rhymes drinking     and cobwebs

George MacBeth
George MacBeth is about to begin work on his fourth novel, a major piece of fiction synthesising elements from Mickey Spillane and William Shakespeare. His second novel “The Samurai is out from Quartet Books in April.

Abigail Mozley
Born 1947. Married with two daughters, lives in Falmouth and Cambridge. Divides time and energy between domesticity / academia / journalism / feminism / poetry and prose. First published in Ambit in 1973; widely published in literary mags; broadcast 1974 on Poetry Now; anthologised in Contemporary Women Poets (Rondo) 1975 ; will be reading at Poetry Society Sat. 7 February 1976 7.30 pm.

Ralph Steadman
Born 1936. Has drawn cartoons for everything from Private Eye to the Daily Telegraph and Rolling Stone. His illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland were awarded the Francis Williams Prize and his most recent publication is a set of illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark (Studio Vista/Michael Dempsey). Sets of the original illustrations are also available through Turret Bookshop.

David Tipton
Spent five years in Peru. Another story is to be published in the Arts Council Anthology next spring. Contributed an article to the book You Always Remember the First Time (Quartet) edited by B. S. Johnson. A biography of Atahualpa should be our soon and two books of poems, Graph of Love and Departure in Yellow. Has been writing full-time since 1974, and lives in Sheffield with three of his children.

Ian Watson
Born 1943; taught English in Tanzania and Japan for five years, then SF & Futurology at Birmingham Poly’s Art & Design Centre. Books: The Embedding (1973) - SF about psycholinguistics. French translation won 1974 Prix Apollo in Paris. The Jonah Kit (1975) - SF about the minds of whales. My Ambit story is part of an erotic SF satirical novel, The Woman Factory, due out 1976 in French only, from Editions Champ Libre.

Ambit in ‘76

Ambit in its new format will continue to appear quarterly and No. 66 will be out in April, 67 in July and 68 in October. Our October number will be largely devoted to theatrical matters and its production will be supervised by Irving Wardle. Original creative material relating to the theatre - worknotes, drawings, photos etc. - may be submitted. Critical or review material should be preceded by a letter.

Book reviews

Ambit has always discouraged the spread of critical material too far into its pages and in this number the creative material has crowded reviews out. However, we shall be continuing reviews in the next number, but in a new format. We are going to try to review poetry, published both in pamphlet and in book form, more extensively than heretofore, but at shorter length: reviews will run at 250-400 words but far more books will be noted. Publishers please note.

We shall also be continuing our series of articles Poet on Poet.