Ambit x Soho Radio

The euthanasia party of Ambit. Celebrating winners of the Annual Ambit Competition for Poems, Stories & Art. Stuart McPherson (poems, judged by Rebecca Tamás), Paul Currion (stories, judge by Jenni Fagan) and Robert Gillespie (art, judged by Danielle de Picciotto). Established in 1959, the board opted to close down charity operations in 2023. The final broadcast, presented by Kirsty Allison. Please sign up for more at kirstyallison.substack.com

Special edition on the second ever Ambit Pop, guest edited by punk art legend, Savage Pencil, best known from his artwork for the most extreme late 20th century musicians such as Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Mudhoney, Sunn O))) and many more. Special guests include Barbara Frost, who writes stories in the magazine inspired by Savage Pencil's drawings, peter hope-evans (Medicine Head) sharing breath with the jew's harp, Gaye Black aka Gaye Advert (bassist in The Adverts) with her black metal photos, and Geraldine Beskin of Atlantis Bookshop where a show by Savage Pencil, of his poster artwork for Sunn O))) in on until the end of June. Join the Ambit Pop Tour in July.  Details on the website. Ambit Rebellion in Poems, Stories, and Art since 1959

Editor Kirsty Allison talks digital culture with Anthony Anaxagorou and we drop the name of his highly anticipated new collection on Granta Books. Ambit hang in the rainbow realm celebrating the queer collection of the year with Queering the Green (Belfast Lifeboat) editor Paul Maddern and recent Clarissa Luard Award winner Padraig Regan talking about the concepts of anti-inclusive language as subject. Also regular Ambit contributor, Mícheál McCann.  From the forthcoming Ambit 246, we go beyond the streets of Soho with the louche lines of fashion illustrator, musician and poet Stuart McKenzie who’ll be performing at our party at the Martinez on 2 March. Also in the studio, Cleo Henry, who’s being published for the first time by Ambit. She reads Each Time I Piss in Hampstead Heath. And it’s a pleasure to host the queer Manx poet, Simon Maddrell and Tom Bland whose Camp Fear collection on Bad Betty Press is designed for a life of chaise be-longue-ing. Music from Gil De Ray, BAG x Behrens, Jamika and the Argonauts, Disinformation, and Hackedepicciotto.

🧡🎃⚡️the nights are drawing in…and the eve of Halloween, Ambit's editor, Kirsty Allison is hanging in graveyards with poets and smelling the blood of prize-winners in the studio 🎃🎃🩸 the Ambit All Stars at the turn of Samhain - cash monnaie winners of the Annual Ambit Competitions themed on Metamorphosis for Stories, Poems and Art premiered on Soho Radio 👻 and Chris McCabre (McCabe)  talking about his new book out now with Penned In The Margins. @georginaparfitt @sites_of_horror_ @___eddwood___ @gibbons3141 @lucygrayphoto @sunkotara 

Ambit magazine, est. 1959, bids adieu to Briony Bax, editor from 2013-2021, who speaks about her Lament collection about mental health (Rough Trade Books), with music from Pete Astor's The Attendant, Malik Ameer Crumpler's new Brazilian collaboration, presented by author, poet, and incoming editor, Kirsty Allison

First broadcast with Soho Radio NYC and Culture, hear poet heroine, iconic essayist, and mighty novelist Kim Addonizio talk about the gender politics in literature with Kirsty Allison 🔵🔵🔵 also featured: the commended poets that Addonizio selected for the notorious Annual Ambit Poems Competition #StephaniePowell #MarkMcGuinness #ElisabethMurawski #MaryMulholland #ElisabethSennittClough @elisabethsennittclough #KitIngram @kitingramwrites #AnneBailey #AlixWillard 🔵🔵🔵 www.ambitmagazine.co.uk

Michael Foreman - the art director of Ambit for 50 years, with legendary typesetter Alan Kitching, who came in with Derek Birdsall's Omnific Studios -  illustrator and jazzman, Ken Cox, our new designer Stephen Barrett with Kirsty Allison, and curator and author, David Brittain, and an in depth discussion with art competition judge, Michael Salu.