About Poety Matters

Poetry Matters is a home-grown print poetry journal that began in Spring 2006.

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09 August 2011

Craig Powell, "Poetry on the Brain", Meanjin, December 2004

"In a paper called 'On Poetry and Weeping', I suggested that the child first forms a name for its mother when it begins to appreciate that the two of them have separate minds, different subjectivities. So that language itself arises from this sense of separateness and the loss of the primordial union. There is thus a basic sadness at the heart of words. Profound beauty can in itself bring us to tears. Music and poetry reach into that archaic level of experience between merger and separateness."

http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/powell-craig 

http://meanjin.com.au/ 

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