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 August 2013

fear of writing


Sarah Dunant


"… within the writing there is a huge amount of pain, there is. You get lost, you don’t know what you're doing. You get frightened. You don’t think you can do it. I’ve written 12 books now and I’ve begun to realise that getting lost, being terrified, knowing this is the one I will not write, is all part of the process … quite a commitment to put yourself through … "

Jane Sullivan

"… there are always moments when you think, ‘what am I doing? this is a complete and utter waste of time, why do I fool myself into thinking I can write anything at all? this is a disaster, I’ll never do this again.’ And somehow you rise up out of that and you go on."

Melbourne Writer's Festival
History's Script


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