Forty-fifth Issue

Amsterdam Quarterly received a record-breaking number of submissions for its forty-fifth issue on Climate Overshoot. AQ received work for this issue from contributors living in nine different countries on five continents in five genres: fiction, photoessay, photography, poetry, and reviews. Their work covered climate concerns about extreme weather and temperatures, declining amounts of fresh water, rising sea levels and the resulting shoreline erosion, species extinction, migration, and the generation and the use of solar and wind energy.

Headlining this issue is Richenda Van Leeuwen’s and Bob Ward’s photoessay on solar and wind energy. In addition, in line with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s admonition that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the earth’, AQ45 received a staggering 85% of all submissions in this genre. Climate overshoot poems were submitted by Nathaniel Calhoun, Andrew Darling, Adam Gianforcaro, Philip Gross, Monique van Maare, Bryan R. Monte, Leen Raats, Angela Segredaki, Sally St Clair, Gopu M. Sunil, Jane Thomas, Michael H. F. Wilkinson, Linden Van Wert, and Mantz Yorke.

There is also a short story by Obiotika Wilfred and photography by Erik Vincenti Zakhia as well as reviews of the late A.S. Williams’s The Palliative Horse by Hollis Kurman and Susan E. Lloy’s Deep Breaths of the Inanimate by Bryan R. Monte.

We hope you find AQ45 cathartic, instructive, and motivating.