I am peer reviewing a lot of #poetry and #prose for a #literary magazine, and I have to say, by FAR the most common issue with these pieces is self-indulgence and a failure of #editing
Lots of writers have fresh perspectives, brilliant passages, fantastic evocative images... but they just can't resist wrapping them in weaker language, exposition, clumsy sense-making, etc.
If they trusted their readers more, and cut their writing down to the bone, these would be gold.
