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Neil Rollinson – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

“Avoid the use of abstract nouns”, he said, “that’s what’s holding your poetry back”. It was a revelation. Now its the first piece of advice I give. “Avoid the use of abstract nouns”, he said, “that’s what’s holding your poetry back”. It was a revelation. Now its the first piece of advice I give students when I teach creative writing.


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