
Amsterdam Review
@AmsterdamRev
Followers
1K
Following
3K
Media
168
Statuses
601
Our Spring 2025 issue is OUT NOW!. Featuring @d_c_demaree @KevinGrauke @hazeljhall @nicholas_hogg @MsStefanieKirby @DorotheaLasky @briankirkwriter @courtludwick @mcevoy_nuala . Read here: #poetry #fiction #translations #interviews #finearts #amsterdam๐ท
0
11
33
Amsterdam Review talks to poet ๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ต๐ถ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ about inspiration, switching between genres, writing in a second language, and the themes and qualities that define her poetry. #poetry #poetrycommunity #interview
0
0
7
"Next spring / I will be another woman; / I will look a little less / like my father.". A poem by ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐น๐น in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
4
17
RT @KathrynGray: Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallโฆ.
0
40
0
"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 didnโt come.". #flashfiction by ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ธ in the Spring 2025 issue.
0
3
17
RT @ForwardPrizes: ๐ค ANNOUNCING: Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 @southbankcentre .๐
Sun 26 Oct | ๐ข 7:30pm | ๐ Southbank Centre.20 poets. 4 prโฆ.
0
7
0
RT @BloodaxeBooks: 'a considerable, harrowing achievement.' โย Phoebe Walker,ย @TheTLS, on Helen Farish's @tseliotprize 2024 shortlisted fourโฆ.
the-tls.com
Towards the end of The Penny Dropping, the speaker attempts to reverse the sequence of events that has caused a romance to flourish, falter, and collapse.
0
1
0
"Day after day, a pollinator arrives / and white flowers open, / every day the juice of fruit touches my tongue". Two poems by ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
8
32
"What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?". Read ๐จ๐ ๐. ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
0
1
6
RT @jorie_graham: Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrityโa fighter in all senses of the termโhas moved onโฆ.
poetryfoundation.org
The paper slept but the night in me woke up. While birds swept over the water like pot-bellied angels beautiful bells rang to assist the hoist. Then they kill themselves offstage, away from the pages...
0
95
0
"Itโs easy to get lost in technicalities, / to science the natural cycles of life". A poem by ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
6
33
RT @BloodaxeBooks: 'Beast is an intense, lyrical work which asks difficult questions'. Pascale Petit's poem 'A Mother Sings' from her ninthโฆ.
0
5
0
"Being human, / the people came / to accept transformation / for its own sakeโ / of themselves, firstโ / but transformation / is its own advocate". A poem by ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
10
31
"The choice lies in the act of measuringโit is the product of some frank, / dispassionate inspection, a lucent audit of your standing". Two poems by ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ก๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ @danielnemo in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
1
16
RT @BloodaxeBooks: โIn dialogue here not just with his Sri Lankan heritage, but with Keats, Marvell, Seamus Heaney and Walter de la Mare, Rโฆ.
thetimes.com
Our resident poetry expert recommends four collections to enjoy this summer, from a nature anthology to Fiona Bensonโs witchy verse
0
3
0
"Emily as ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ by Pablo Picasso," a poem by ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป ๐. ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ @d_c_demaree in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
4
15
"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 ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
2
10
27
"That Spring Artemis sent all the big poets and little poets / hysterical down the mountain to the workshop of the sea". Two poems by ๐๐ฒ๐น๐๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
1
6
"So much goes wrong: / no body, no reflection, no head / to drop forward, a mortal sun.". Two poems by ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ @MsStefanieKirby in the Spring 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
0
1
9
RT @IrelandinNL: On Saturday, we celebrated #Bloomsday2025 ๐ with the local ๐ฎ๐ช community & fans of ๐ฎ๐ช culture. We were thrilled to be joineโฆ.
0
3
0
RT @BloodaxeBooks: 'Petitโs beasts dance through her language. [โฆ] For Petit, metaphors give form to the unspeakable. [โฆ] Although there maโฆ.
0
3
0