Nicholas Jones1 Feb 2006

I did invent the duck image; I was sitting in the freezing cold by a frozen lake during my lunch break scribbling in my notebook.

The noise thiong comes from the fact it's a park just outside a town, so it is quiet in comparison but there's still the traffic noise.

The point I think is that imagism is too narrow; there are many other things going on in poetry than just the images. I think a very austere imagist poem can opnly work by excluding everything else; I'd rather have excess verbosity that encompasses more than a clinical precision that excludes. I've just been reading an anthology of imagist writers, and I read the poems and think yes, that's very nice, but where's the rest?