Supervisor: Professor Meg Jensen

Email: evegrubin@nyu.edu

In poetry, the unsaid is vital to the production of meaning. In order to investigate the theoretical framework of this claim and its practical application, my research comprises a critical component, The Poetics of Reticence, and a research-led creative practice, a collection of poems, Boat of Letters. The critical study introduces and explores the idea I have coined ‘the poetics of reticence’, a new term in the field. I argue that narrative gaps are central to the poetics of reticence. The creative practice exhibits and challenges that poetics.