Activating the White Space: Poetry Masterclass with Philip Gross

What happens when we activate blank space in a poem? This online workshop explores absence, silence and white space in poetry, led by celebrated poet Philip Gross.

Philip Gross’s poetry has always been a dialogue with silence, most clearly in his Estonia-based collection The Shores of Vaikus (2024). In the workshop, he will share some of his own experiments, alongside other examples ranging from haiku to Sappho’s fragments to erasure poetry.