Martin Bax is a British

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 consultant paediatrician, who, in addition to his medical career, founded the Arts magazine Ambit

Ambit

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in 1959. He lives in London and continues to practice, and edit Ambit, along with Kate Pemberton and Geoff Nicholson

Geoff Nicholson

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. Since he created it, Ambit has published poetry, prose and artwork from the likes of Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock

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, Peter Porter

Peter Porter

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, Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

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, J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

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, Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi

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 and many others.

His first published novel was The Hospital Ship published by Cape and New Directions in 1976. More recently Love on the Borders was published by Seren in 2005. In the 1970s using text from The Hospital Ship he developed the Vietnam Symphony with jazz trumpeter Henry Lowther

Henry Lowther

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 and this was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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 (ICA) and subsequently on BBC Radio 3

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. He has also written for children and his book Edmund went Far Away was published in the US and the UK.

Martin Bax organises regular readings in the UK for Ambit magazine, and jazz events as well, presented at various venues in London and elsewhere, most recently at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell, London and Chelsea Arts Club

Chelsea Arts Club

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Bax also edits the medical journal Developmental and Child Neurology.