Martine van Bijlert is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer who grew up in Iran, lives in the Netherlands and, in between, worked as an aid worker, researcher and diplomat, mostly in Afghanistan.
Selected work
- Poetry
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Sunday morning
Barrow Street Journal, 2023
this is not a love song
backroom poetry, 2023
I too want to stand in a meadow
Quartet Journal, 2023
what shall I do today
Sublunary Review, 2023
morning commute
Sublunary Review, 2023
self-portrait as an ancient woodblock print
tiny wren lit, self-portraiture issue , 2023
fenced in and kept safe
Split Rock Review, 2023
How did the fish first get into the pond?
Tiny Spoon, issue 9, CUT/COPY/PASTE: The Remix (print), 2023
filling the sink
Suburbia Journal, 2022
I keep thinking of the fig
Right Hand Pointing, 2022
a furnace is a dangerous place
Olney Magazine, 2022
when you come out of a war
Oyster River Review, 2022
winter is coming and we don't know what to do
Consequence Forum, 2022
vertigo
NonBinary Review, 2022
and now you’re asked and then you’re told (Kabul, August 2021)
Hole in the Head Review, 2022
after they hit the city (Grozny, winter 1995)
Hole in the Head Review, 2022
that was exactly what it was (and two other poems)
Otis Nebula, 2022
He sends me the list of the fourteen dead
Pangyrus Lit mag, 2022
set the world alight
kerning | a place for words, 2021
this life we built
The Dewdrop, 2021