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In 2025, she won the Gjalp poetry prize with the poem \u2018Held op sokken\u2019 (\u2018Hero in Socks\u2019), based on her grandfather, a traumatised resistance fighter.<br>After the sudden death of her mother in 2025, she began a series of reflective essays on grief, to be published in 2026 in the literary magazine De Moanne. In these texts, she seeks to rediscover meaning in times of loss. She is also working on her first book, Tussen oorijzer (traditional Dutch gold head ornament) en Strijd (Between oorijzer and struggle). Myrte explores the concept of identity and being by embedding it within broader frameworks: family history and landscape play a central role in her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw my mate,<br>faded red, body thin,<br>his song has not reached<br>me for a long time now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the other had no feathers<br>fell from the sky<br>a coal-black hull<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">his voice lifting me<br>buzzing on<br>over water and steppe<br>searching for the coast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I want to ride on your back<\/em>, I whistled,<br>not loud enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">his four wings \u2013<br>fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>translation edited by Laura Watkinson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myrte Marije Veenbaas (1986) is a poet and writer. 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