Martin Rombouts

(Rotterdam, 1992) is a writer, maker and performer. In 2017, he graduated from ArtEZ Creative Writing with the post-truth non-fiction novella I want to climb the mountain, for which he was selected for the Dutch Foundation for Literature's Slow Writing Lab talent programme. He has published on ABCyourself, in Tirade and in the Oerol Dagkrant, and performed at Lowlands, the Wintertuinfestival and at Perdu, among others. Rombouts is a member of De Literaire Boyband, who releases its debut EP In Canon January 2023. Together with musician-artist Willie Darktrousers and with performers Dean Bowen and Maxime Garcia Diaz, he created the music and spoken word performance Poetic Resistance: a poetic indictment of anger and resistance. Can a demonstration be a poem, a manifesto an art object? Especially for the closing programme of Winternachten festival 2023, they made new work together in response to the question: what is the raw material of the poem?