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Emptiness of poet, nothing going right (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

void

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'emptiness' is the definition.
(I know that emptiness can be written as void)

'poet nothing going right' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'nothing' could be 'o' (O resembles 0) and 'o' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'vid' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for void that I've seen before include "Null and invalid" , "Containing nothing or not legally binding" , "Empty space or vacuum" , "Empty or vacant, like space" , "Null and empty" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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