amsterdamreview.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

"When I was five it seemed everywhere I looked there was a brightly lit screen behind things. As if the world were a stage lit from the back." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti amsterdamreview.org/thoughts-on-... #poetry #poetrycommunity

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I love the precision in this poem by Elizabeth Louden. Whole poem in the thread. #poetry "Even when I fainted on the dockside I wanted to do it with grace – a limp swan folding its wings among reeds...:

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Two poems by @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-geoffrey-babbitt.html #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Read 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗞𝗵𝗼𝗶 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗻's interview Circling the Wound of the Void in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/circling-the-wound-of-the-void.html #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Maybe the meaning is / it’s all music" Three poems by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Our next online event will be our March launch reading with Gwyneth Lewis, Kate Potts & Arundhathi Subramaniam. Join us live on YouTube on Tues 25 March, 7pm GMT. Watch live or later on our YouTube channel. Sign up for reminders: www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

By the amazing @lisasterle.bsky.social who designed me a special new tarot card for the cover of my forthcoming collection New Arcana from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

from Out in the Open by 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼̈𝗺𝗲𝗿 (translated by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo.bsky.social) #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is going to be a brilliant poetry evening! I’m interviewing the wonderful @imtiazdharker.bsky.social on March 8th in Wootton by Woodstock. Get your tickets (which include dinner) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... 6.30 talk 7.30 dinner 8.30 open-mic

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

"Perhaps all writing is like lucid dreaming: sufferers of trauma may feel helpless, even voiceless, in the face of their memories, but as authors they are in charge of the narrative." @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"You can see beauty only from the side, briefly" Under Pressure by 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼̈𝗺𝗲𝗿 (translated by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo.bsky.social) #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Join us tomorrow at 7pm GMT on our YouTube channel for live readings and discussion from our three February authors and their translators: youtube.com/live/SiYFLYP... Available to watch live or later via this link.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I wish this weren't becoming relevant again in the most terrifying way

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

"All the nerve passageways crowd / Into a finger’s whorl" Five poems by 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝘂𝗴𝗵 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/five-by-christina-pugh.html #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Writing the Animal – my zoom workshop for the fabulous @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social on 18 March, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pascale-pe...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

15 February, Live and online, at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Verve Poetry & Spoken Word Festival

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"So much to behold / in the world that wasn’t theirs was theirs in their eyes" A poem by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 in the Fall 2024 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Does the newfound access to instant information actually make us smarter? The deeper question isn’t just 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 we know, but 𝘩𝘰𝘸 we know. This bit about the way our minds work concerns us all: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"As I flip through editions and translations of Beowulf I wonder why the fear is so often glossed out of it." @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Tickets are still available for this free workshop! poetrysociety.org.uk/event/online...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"An object that should have no future—a broken ceramic cup, or jar, or plate—is pieced together with lacquer made from the sap of the urushi tree and its joints are burnished with gold. The fault lines of a prior catastrophe bolt across the object like lightning; now it is the scars that shine..."

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Great creativity often emerges from discomfort. From not knowing. From sitting with paradoxes long enough to generate something new. If we shortcut that process too much, do we lose something vital? www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-digital-self/202502/the-death-of-i-dont-know

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"The nonconformists stop all the clocks / to gain access / to / restricted areas" Two poems by 𝗔𝗺𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗮𝗻𝗼 in the Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-amy-catanzano.html #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

So many have written to me today about this poem in the last few days (here in @londonreview.bsky.social )(also in my book To 2040) that I thought I’d post it. Thank you for returning it to my attention. I wrote it two years ago. It already felt scary then… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Sketch in October by 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼̈𝗺𝗲𝗿 (translated by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo.bsky.social) #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

The Stevens Translation Prize from @twolinespress.bsky.social is open. www.stevnstranslationprize.com

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

"Getting naked fast / is what I do to collapse distance" A poem by 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗷𝗲 𝗞𝘂𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 in the Fall 2024 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

"Using AI to create art and scholarship adds another layer of insidious censorship. In a way, it’s almost worse — people think they are writing and thinking and making, but in many cases, they are generating something obvious and pre-controlled." irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/the-world-...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

All creatures have a right to life. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

Last week we launched Poetry Ireland Review Issue 144, edited by Jessica Traynor, and it was a wonderful evening of poignant readings and vibrant conversation. Thanks to everyone who joined to celebrate #PIR144, its editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social, & the brilliant contributors in this issue. 🎉

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

David Lynch’s Fourth State of Consciousness #PoetryCommunity #Reality #Film

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

What a wonderful Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín has been. We were very lucky to welcome him to WCLF during his tenure and #BantryLibrary hosted one of his The Art of Reading Book Clubs in 2022. Thank you Colm. In this video he reflects on his time as Laureate www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFoQ...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The Couple by 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼̈𝗺𝗲𝗿 (translated by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo.bsky.social) #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The Friday Poem on Friday 31st January 2025 open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to Stanza! Really interesting programme, including a live recording of The Lantern poetry podcast. byretheatre.com/shows/stanza...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝘂̈𝗰𝗸 on the materialistic view that has sadly shaped the modern world

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Venice in Winter, With a Poet as Our Guide www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

How / to carry less / weight when / the only way to / ecstasy was / starve it. Two poems by 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 in the Fall 2024 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Next week Thursday at 7:30pm at Emory University's Carlos Museum, @victoriachang.bsky.social, Lauren K Watel, and I will share poems. I am very much looking forward to this reading! RSVP: eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?e...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"Maybe this is beauty. Maybe derailed beauty is still beauty." Three poems by 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 @victoriachang.bsky.social in the Fall 2024 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

🎙️NEW! Our acclaimed Nothing But The Poem podcast is back with a new monthly series. Hosted by @SamuelTongue it takes an immersive dive into poems by an individual poet. The first poet featured in 2025 is @victoriachang.bsky.social Listen in here: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Charles Bernstein, The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies / @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/01/char...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

All creatures have a right to life. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This is coming up next week! See you there, maybe? Poetry London Presents Helen Ivory and Camille Ralphs | Goldsmiths, University of London search.app/xMxEbn9nmjmc... @poetrylondon.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments