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.

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13 January 2014

"Freeing your inner tortoise"

"John Cleese says that the creative part of the mind is like a tortoise. It's a nervous little creature that needs an enclosure before it can be sure that it's safe to come out.

So, to create, we need to make our own tortoise enclosure, with boundaries of space and time. The dangerous thing is to be interrupted, because it can take a long time to get back into that creative state, and ideas won't come if we're rushing around all day."

Jane Sullivan,2014, "Freeing your inner tortoise", The Saturday Age (Life & Style), 11 January, p. 24. 
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