Celebration All My Dead Jesters

Join us on the 28th August at Boekhandel Perdu for an intimate reading with Nadia de Vries. This event is to celebrate Tenement Press’s recent publication of All My Dead Jesters, a compendium of ten years of writing in verse. To mark the occasion, Nadia will read from All My Dead Jesters before engaging in conversation with Oliver Taylor. The doors will open at 18.00 for a 18.30 start, and tickets are available via perdu.nl for 5€.

Nadia de Vries is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her previous collections include Know Thy Audience (MOIST, 2023), I Failed to Swoon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021) and Dark Hour (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). She also writes fiction in Dutch. Her novels De bakvis (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) and Overgave op commando (2025) were translated to English by Sarah Timmer Harvey as, respectively, Thistle (The New Menard Press, 2024) and Surrender on Demand (Bloomsbury, 2027).