Poet in residence seeing difficult birth in early James Bond premieres (1,1,6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

BIRTH* in E[arly] J[ames] B[ond].. E. J. THRIBB is the eternally 17½-year-old “poet” in Private Eye who writes tributes to the recently-deceased, usually beginning “So. Farewell then..”