Amsterdam Review

Our Spring 2025 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring @d_c_demaree @KevinGrauke @hazeljhall @nicholas_hogg @MsStefanieKirby @DorotheaLasky @briankirkwriter @courtludwick @mcevoy_nuala Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #interviews #finearts #amsterdam📷

'a considerable, harrowing achievement.' – Phoebe Walker, @TheTLS, on Helen Farish's @tseliotprize 2024 shortlisted fourth collection The Penny Dropping. the-tls.com/literature/poe…

Gah. Two of my favorites. 🖤 Maria Stepanova translated by Sasha Dugdale.

We have a WINNER! We are delighted to announce that Sasha Dugdale has won this year’s Runciman Award for her exceptional book #TheStrongbox. Warmest Congratulations Sasha!

Amsterdam Review talks to poet 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 about inspiration, switching between genres, writing in a second language, and the themes and qualities that define her poetry. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity #interview

"Next spring / I will be another woman; / I will look a little less / like my father." A poem by 𝗛𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallness of it—but the immensity. Utterly beautiful poem-making.

"I dreamed the male fox was standing in the garden, agitated, uncertain what to do. He turned and turned about looking around for his mate, but she didn’t come." #flashfiction by 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

🎤 ANNOUNCING: Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 @southbankcentre 📅 Sun 26 Oct | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Southbank Centre 20 poets. 4 prizes. 1 unforgettable night of poetry! Tickets 🎟️: buff.ly/bQZucQ9 #ForwardPrizes #PoetryLive

"Day after day, a pollinator arrives / and white flowers open, / every day the juice of fruit touches my tongue" Two poems by 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?" Read 𝗨𝘀 𝘃. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 A Hymn | The Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

"It’s easy to get lost in technicalities, / to science the natural cycles of life" A poem by 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

'Beast is an intense, lyrical work which asks difficult questions' Pascale Petit's poem 'A Mother Sings' from her ninth collection #Beast was featured as Poem of the Week in @TheScotsman Magazine of 5 July.

"Being human, / the people came / to accept transformation / for its own sake— / of themselves, first— / but transformation / is its own advocate" A poem by 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"The choice lies in the act of measuring—it is the product of some frank, / dispassionate inspection, a lucent audit of your standing" Two poems by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

‘In dialogue here not just with his Sri Lankan heritage, but with Keats, Marvell, Seamus Heaney and Walter de la Mare, Ravinthiran deserves more recognition as one of our most musical and memorable poets.' - Graeme Richardson, @thetimes, on Avidyā. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

"Emily as 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙙 by Pablo Picasso," a poem by 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗖. 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲 @d_c_demaree in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"The capital of capital / is a city impossible to besiege. It moves, / after all, all the barons and pirates / setting up shop over and over" Two poems by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗭𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"That Spring Artemis sent all the big poets and little poets / hysterical down the mountain to the workshop of the sea" Two poems by 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"So much goes wrong: / no body, no reflection, no head / to drop forward, a mortal sun." Two poems by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗯𝘆 @MsStefanieKirby in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity