"contemporary matters" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually refers to the current issues of importance in a particular moment in time. For example: "The media debated several contemporary matters during the most recent news cycle."
Their verse plays combined Bible stories and references to contemporary matters.
There is whimsy here, alongside somber messages about decidedly contemporary matters.
Broadhurst debates such important contemporary matters as frozen food, Primark and call centres with infectious zest and humour.
The first type can therefore be said to be retrospective in approach, while the arts and sciences encyclopaedia was clearly identifiable with contemporary matters.
And to turn to more contemporary matters, how about those liberals at BuzzFeed and HuffPost pouncing on Sen. Amy Klobuchar's harsh treatment of staff?
I'll spare you the discussion of Carlyle and Spencer, about whom you no doubt learned a lot more in school than I did, and stick to contemporary matters.
The book examines the contemporary matter of what Haag variously calls "semi-happy" or "low-conflict" or "melancholy" marriages — that is, marriages that are not unhappy enough to break up, but not exactly happy, either.
Not for him the utopian or Arcadian, progressive or quasi-religious programs of other modern artists; he scorned both abstraction and contemporary subject matter.
As a young poet, Mr. Hollander fell under the influence of W. H. Auden, whose experiments in fusing contemporary subject matter with traditional metric forms he emulated.
Depicting contemporary subject matter from observation could mean painting nature in "plein-air" — outdoors — which seemed fairly harmless, although it broke from the long studio tradition.
