About Poety Matters

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

Censorship can take many forms. The inability to find a place of publication can be social censorship.

Poetry is freedom. Anyone can write poetry.

Nevertheless, it takes a lot of work to create the poetry that reaches the places only poetry knows.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, Poetry Matters welcomes you as readers and writers.

Contact me about submissions and subscriptions: poetry.clh@gmail.com

29 October 2013

mslexia - for women who write

New Writing: 2013 Women's Poetry Competition 

Kathleen Jamie introduces her selection of winning poems


Kathleen Jamie. Photo credit: Eamon McCabe

"It’s always difficult being faced with a heap of poems, all in different fonts, with different margins, and code numbers handwritten in the corner. I prefer approaching poems one at a time, as you would if you encountered them in a book; then each poem can take its time, find its own level. That’s why proper book-making is so important for poetry, because it situates poems with care and attention on the page, and why internet publishing is a poor option."


Kathleen Jamie: a life in writing
"When we step outside and look up, we're not little cogs in the capitalist machine. It's the simplest act of resistance and renewal."


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