The Poetics of Reticence
Eve GrubinStep into the waters of poetic silences
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Be the Flower and Giving Up
Naomi Osaka makes an appearance in my poem ‘Rather the Flower than the Bee’ from Boat of Letters (Four Way Books 2025).
The title of the poem is adapted from John Keats’ letter to his friend John Hamilton (1818) where he writes, ‘It seems...
Poems that begin quietly...
Some poems begin with quiet. Building. The full power of the poem only breaks through at the very last line.
Everything that came before that last line was leading to that ending. Keats said that poets live in ‘negative capability’ which...
I Lived
How to write a poem that seems to come from a full awareness that one is alive?
20th century American poet, Muriel Rukeyser, achieved this in poems which reflect a profound alertness to the particular historical moment in which she lived....
Money (rant) and a Prompt
This poem by British poet Benjamin Zephaniah is written in non-standard English, in the accent of what is called ‘Nation Language’ or the accent of people from the West Indies or the Caribbean islands. The poem is filled with rage, philosop...
Wonder in the Mundane
Can poetry restore dignity to debased moments? How does a poet point to underlying meaning and wonder in the mundane? Why do poets seem to insist on profundity in their poems precisely within mundane framework, not via transcendence or risi...
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Author of Boat of Letters, Morning Prayer, The House of Our First Loving, and Grief Dialogue | Lecturer at NYU in London | Tutor at the Poetry School | PhD on the Poetics of Reticence
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