Thirty-sixth Issue

Amsterdam Quarterly’s thirty-sixth issue about No Planet B features work in five genres: art, fiction, photography, poetry, and review. Headlining this issue is a photo by Jim Ross of Greta Thunberg receiving the 2019 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award (along with Fridays for Future in many cities simultaneously) and kerry rawlinson’s photo of the aftermath of a forest fire. There is art by Samarra Prahlad depicting both the beauty of the sea and a raging forest fire’s inferno. In addition, there is fiction by Monique van Maare about an island threatened by rising seas and Mandira Pattnaik’s sci-fi story about a man rejected for a place on a rocket off a dying Earth.

As usual, there is an embarrassment of riches related to poetry about ecology, climate change, and catastrophic weather by Matthew Brennan, Simon Brod, Catharine Clark-Sayles, Joe Cottonwood, Matthew Friday, Fin Keegan, H. K. G. Lowery, Ali Rowland, Adrienne Stevenson, Heather Swan, Gail Tirone, and Imogen Wade.

Lastly are reviews of Donald Gardner’s New and Selected Poems, 1966-2020, Amlanjyoti Goswami’s Vital Signs, and Susan E. Lloy’s Nothing Comes Back.