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