Peace Peace They Say

A new poetry collection + chance to write together

There’s still time to sign up for the 2025 World Peace Poetry Postcard project. Let’s spend the month of February powerfully writing towards peace and sending out our poems on postcards. Proof of life in these strange times.

I’ve happily participated for years, and many of the poems in my forthcoming book started out as peace postcards. And a brand new book by Martine van Bijlert contains three years of peace poems!

The poems of Peace Peace They Say inhabit the strange world that is born when we live beyond belief.

Van Bijlert writes about peace from an absolutely unique position. These are poems written in English by a person who was raised in Iran, who worked primarily in Afghanistan, and now lives in the Netherlands. The valence of all these languages hangs in powerful balance and spills down the page past the confines of a postcard.

The title of the collection comes from biblical quotations included as epigraphs. With Peace Peace They Say, Martine van Bijlert steps into the circle of prophets.

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To join in the Peace Poetry Postcard exchange, send your name and mailing address to worldpeacepoets@gmail.com by January 20th you will be put on the list!