Literary

Introduction

Martin Bax founded the Arts Magazine ‘Ambit’ while he was in Medical School in 1959. The magazine has now been in existence for 50 years and is one of the three or four Arts Magazines in the United Kingdom. It has supported by the Arts Council of Great Britain but is no longer being receiving support (2008/9).

Martin Bax has written reviews and other material in the magazine. Particularly significant in the 1980s was ‘The Invisible Years’ which were a regular feature of the magazine for 5 years.

Martin Bax has published short stories in ‘Ambit’ as well as in other UK and USA magazines.

His novel ‘The Hospital Ship’ was published by Cape and New Directions.

In 2007 his novel 'Love on the Borders' was published by Seren.

Martin Bax has worked with Jazz groups and his Vietnam symphony with Henry Lowther was performed on BBC Radio 3. Regular jazz events are organised. In addition MB collated several Art Exhibitions, the most recent in April this year at the Chelsea Arts Club. In association with this, writers have written text to pictures.ten text to drawings by British artists, Robert McCauley. A recent sample is in Ambit No.196.

Martin Bax has been elected a fellow of the Royal College of Literature in 2002

Ambit Magazine

Ambit is a quarterly usually 96 page magazine that prints original poetry, short fiction, art and reviews. Ambit was started in 1959 by Martin Bax. Other editors  have included J.G. Ballard, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Foreman, Henry Graham and Geoff Nicholson. Ambit is published in the UK and read internationally. It's available through subscription and in selected bookshops and libraries worldwide.

"Ambit is a surreptitious peek inside a private world. Without it such vital sparks of inspiration could well be lost for ever."
RALPH STEADMAN

For more information on ambit magazine contact martin or visit the website

Interview

H.P. Tinker describes Ambit Magazine as Britain's leading literary magazine, an unswervingly eclectic blitzkrieg of newly surfacing talent and violently distinguished voices. Boasting an experimental, anti-establishment ethic spanning six decades of indestructible ambition in his interview with Ambit's founder and editor, Martin Bax.

Visit the 3am magazine website to view the article in full

Non-Medical Books

Love on the Borders

Innovative, erudite and enormously entertaining, Love on the Borders is the work of a unique literary mind: wideranging, encyclopaedic, insightful and enormously readable, it follows spirited 40-something Celestine as she walks the length of Offa’s Dyke - the ancient earthwork which traces the boundary between England and Wales - and recalls past passions, conjuring up discarded lovers and imagining what might have been.

Love on the Borders was published by Seren in 2005. For more information contact martin or visit the amazon or seren websites.

Edmond Went Far Away

Edmund Went Far Away describes Edmund's walk away from his home and his night out and his dramatic return home.

Was publsihed by Walker in 1998. For more information contact martin or visit the amazon website.

The Hospital Ship

From harbour all round the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties... Emergency cases of men and women in states of severe psychic withdrawal and large groups of autistic children... victims of... a world-wide disaster... On land the holocaust spreads... the hospital ship sails on... struggling to save itself from its own lunacy.

Was publsihed by Cape and New Directions in 1978. For more information contact martin or visit the amazon website.

In the 60's Martin Bax reviewed fro the T.L.S In the 60's Martin Bax reviewed fro the T.L.S and later in the 70's and 80's for British Book News. He still reviews for Ambit.

In 2009 His short stories 'Memoirs of a Gone World' are being published.