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

20 June 2019

being a poet

is to learn an undesignated language

is to travel aridity in search of abandoned truths

is to walk the wrong way in the lane posted failure

is to release the idea of perfection 

is to understand the situation and live with it

is to become inscrutable 

is to honour the poem in everything

and let go