Thesis Title: Blank␣Space: A Site of Process, Interaction, and Possibility.
Supervisor: Professor Kate McLoughlin
My doctoral research explores the apprehensions, politics, and ecologies of blank space within contemporary poetry. Examining how blank space can represent the irrepresentable – that which resists linguistic expression – my thesis investigates the interplay between text and blank space as a means of communicating various ineffabilities and unknowns.
Research interests:
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My work has been published by Yoko Ono, Art Monthly, Frieze, The BBC, Penguin Random House, The Oxford Review of Books, Lumin Journal, and more. I was one of Frieze’s inaugural New Writers, and am the author of iPhone Notes 2021. I am a recipient of The Michael O'Pray Prize and Repellers’ NYC Writers’ Club Award. I am also a member of the poetry collective TheVerseVerse who are currently exhibiting in London, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles (in partnership with The Allen Ginsberg Estate).
For more on my writing practice, see: ronniepope.com
