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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 4d

Super proud to have new short fiction in the latest @amsterdamreview.bsky.social

www.amsterdamreview.org/terrarium.html

Terrarium by Suzy Eynon | Amsterdam Review

Terrarium, a short story by Suzy Eynon

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Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social · 4d

Hi friends - I have a series of photos in the new issue of the @amsterdamreview.bsky.social, described as "Monochrome Cinematic," along with an insightful descriptive essay by the editor. See it & the other fine works here
www.amsterdamreview.org/monochrome-c...

#amsterdamreview #amsterdam #photos

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solidsilver.bsky.social @solidsilver.bsky.social · 3d

Muntplein views

#amsterdam
#canon5d4
#135mm
#nightphotography

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 3d

So grateful to @ctsalazar.bsky.social for vouching for Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best.
If you're disposed to take his word for things, as I am, please pre-order (or nudge your buddies).
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/7HFw4ReVpSr6...

cover of Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, featuring Joseph Cornell's L'Humeur Vagabonde, a 4 by 4 shelf with glass & cardboard & seashell curiosities.

Endorsement of Oddest & Oldest & Safest & Best by C.T. Salazar, also in more accessible version here:
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books https://share.google/7HFw4ReVpSr6yUgke

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Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social · 3d

#preview of #film #photos via negative converter

{note: these #thumbnails are tinted / dimmer / cropped / lower res than the actual photos will be}

#photography #artshare #fotografia #filmsky #artsky #photosky #booksky #moviesky #laphotographie #filmisnotdead #analog #filmphotography #35mm #art

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 4d

New poem up! Thanks to the editors @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for including my work. Follow their link to read the issue in full:

AMSTERDAM REVIEW
We Have Known Each Other at Every Hour by Chelsea Dingman
At dusk, the dusk holds
the days apart. I am also other than
I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness, Simone Weil wrote at the onset of WWII. Still,
this almost-hour. Its snows. All that I still have to lose. What grain, what glacier,
what child, what plain did I hand my emptiness
that I would feel full? Still, I don't understand why
we describe it as falling— in orbit, the satellites going fast enough sideways
that they fall past the earth
as the earth turns from them. As in love,

when I looked you in your face the first time and understood you too will be impossible
to see to the end. Some days, I think it would be easier not to know
hat I now know. You are a homesickne uffered by fantasies of orchids, scotc
pines, daybreak. Blue
graves scattered over cities. People
I tried to love
but couldn't. The cow's bright eyes in the fields might've been fireflies tonight had it not been March. The river
cries out from under its hood of ice. Its mouth a silo. In it,
a perfect silence arrives
after the clamor of breaking. As a child,
only after breaking was my body believable. Belief gave way
to grief, its purgatories. Who will look out for you after you are grief enough
to believe in? You who emerged from me
in the future, where I delivered us, two fragile creatures lured out into the ryegrass,
the permafrost. And what on earth is lost that is not lost
fercely, and on purpose? When I'm dead, still I'll dream of you. A rebellion of late snow

I moved toward
without meaning to. A howl of dusk
trembling against me from within.
Chelsea Dingman's first book, Thaw, won the National Poetry Series (UGA Press,
2017). Her second book, through a small ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2020). Her third collection is I, Divided (LSU Press, 2023). She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018). As a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta, her current work draws on research supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada. Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.
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Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann @irishpen.bsky.social · 5d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens flotilla.

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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens flotilla. The flotilla was ...

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 4d

@jasonbentsman.bsky.social @chelsdingman.bsky.social @seanthomasd.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @simonemuenchie.bsky.social @robertokaji.bsky.social @georgia2newengland.bsky.social @wolffalex108.bsky.social @essamksa.bsky.social @danielnemo.bsky.social

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 4d

Our Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW!

Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more.

Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #fiction #translations #finearts #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Amsterdam Review Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW!
Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · Aug 26

I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link:
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: March 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title...

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 10d

Early screen exposure reshapes our brains, alters our ability to form interpersonal bonds, and disrupts emotional growth. Blending #neuroscience and #psychology and backed by research, @danielnemo.bsky.social reveals disturbing insights into what it means to grow up with screens. A must-read:

The Swift Bird of Digital Detachment

Neurodevelopmental Impacts of Screens on the Developing Brain

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 10d

Just ONE WEEK until the Winchester Poetry Festival. so much going on. Book now! www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, @danielnemo.bsky.social & @phebel.bsky.social, for nominating "Market Forces" for the Best of the Net Anthology. I'm a great fan of @amsterdamreview.bsky.social, as well as a grateful recipient of your kindness.

The banner image for Amsterdam Review's website, featuring a black and white photo of several pedestrians, as well as some bicycle action, on a stone bridge.

For a more accessible version of this poem (and one other!):
https://www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-zwart.html

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 14d

@janezwart.bsky.social @sjane.bsky.social @danielnemo.bsky.social @nualamcevoy.bsky.social

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #writingcommunity

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 18d

"It’s not enough, anymore, to say of course / I would’ve liked to know / how it ended."

A poem by 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/birthday-poem-by-aaron-magloire.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Once the rain let up I was sure
the East River’d have a new tributary
to show for it. Instead, more of the same,

and a new subspecies of kingfisher
last night; I dreamt it, but couldn’t
make out its eyes. It dripped dark green

from a black marsh tree, and it was large, looked
large, even in its large tree. That’s how
you can tell. It might’ve flown

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 20d

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025

Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 28d

"She’s not just limp / but thin from hunger, from / scavenging among the ruins, / not a flutter in her delicate / cage of ribs, neither the oath / nor allegiance of oxygen."

Four poems by 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-gary-geddes.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

How can there be laughter,
how can there be pleasure, when
the whole world is burning?

I found these words in a book
called Buddha’s Teachings,
translated from the Pali by

Juan Mascaró. It startled me,
at first, by its contemporary
relevance, Gaza in flames

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 28d

Reading with @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Louise Machen on Saturday 27 September with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang. What fabulous company!! 🤩https://poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/sasha-dugdale-louise-machen-with-music-from-li-lu-lulu-yang-27-september-2025/

Sasha Dugdale, Deryn Rees-Jones & Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025

Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're delighted to announce that Kris Johnson's debut collection Ghost River, published by Bloodaxe in 2023, has been shortlisted for the @englishassociation.bsky.social's Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨

I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word.
🔮✨️🐍🃏

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Sep 3

POETRY IRELAND 146 LAUNCH
Join Poetry Ireland, editor Stephen Sexton, and contributing poets for the launch of #PIR146 in Belfast!

📅 Tuesday, September 23rd at 5:30pm
📍 Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
📩 Book (free) via Eventbrite here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/lau...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great reviews in the Poetry Book Society Autumn Bulletin of @poetclare.bsky.social's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets and @jesstraynor.bsky.social's fourth collection #NewArcana, both out this month from Bloodaxe.

Many thanks to reviewers @shashtrevett.bsky.social and Nasim Rebecca Asl.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

"When did news become advice / Bury invitations, plant ancestral / Relics in plain blight / You don't need to tell anyone"

A few poems by 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/selected-poems-by-laynie-browne.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

When every part of me does not want to go

What I knew I didn't

The mind's ceaseless games to avoid the actual

Counting days, reasons not to detach

Was it the day of my perpetual headache—you went

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

Read "Sweetest Perfection: Depeche Mode's Hyperreal Pop" by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼, only in Amsterdam Review.

www.amsterdamreview.org/sweetest-perfection.html

#DepecheMode #music #popculture #philosophy #essays

Depeche Mode emerged in the 1980s as unlikely philosophers of the postmodern age. What might at first resemble catchy new wave tunes conceals a profound reaction to Postmodernism and its discontents.

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