Philip Harvey - Poetry Editor - Eureka Street

Philip Harvey - Poetry Editor - Eureka Street

from Philip Harvey's report on 2012 Annual Poetry Competition organised by Poetica Christi Press, http://www.poeticachristi.org.au/home.html

"We want our poem to express pretty much exactly what we want to say. But if we make it too obvious then our thoughts and feelings will come out sounding simplistic and untested, or gushy, even flakey. While the more we try to impress, our expression can become obscure, overly artful, and even pretentious. How to manage to express truly and impress effectively while remaining true to our own origianl desires when making poetry is, I believe, a recurring state. It is our creative condition, cause for us to continue trying new ways of making words work. Our essential human need to talk of the spirit ..."