#29
Michelle Cotton / No ideas but in things

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EDITORIAL # 29 MICHELLE COTTON / NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS ‘No ideas but in things’ is an often quoted phrase from the opening of William Carlos Williams’ poem, Paterson (1946-58). Williams was associated with the Anglo-American ‘Imagist’ school of poetry who advocated the ‘direct treatment of the “thing”’ without ‘false ornament’, a precision with language and…