"Samuel Beckett's Poetry is the first book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of twentieth century poetry and literature, as well as for specialists of Beckett's work. This volume explores how poetry provided Beckett a medium of expression during key moments in his life, from his earliest attempts at securing a reputation as a published writer, to the work of restoring his own speech while suffering aphasia shortly before his death. Often these were moments of desperation and discouragement, when more substantial works were not possible: moments of illness, of personal loss or of public disaster. This volume includes an introduction that contextualizes Beckett as a poet and a chronology of the composition and publication of all his known poems. Essays offer a range of critical perspectives, from translation theory, war poetics and Irish Studies to Beckett's debts to Modernism, Romanticism and the Jazz Age"--

Introduction: The odd poem: Samuel Beckett's poetry William Davies and James Brophy; 1. Weirdness and dislocation in Beckett's early poetry Andrew Goodspeed; 2. Whole fragments: Beckett and Modernist poetics Mark Byron; 3. Pre-echoing the bones: Samuel Beckett's early poems and translations as transpositions Onno Kosters; 4. 'The nucleus of a living poetic': Beckett and his Irish contemporaries Gerald Dawe; 5. Beckett growing Gnomic: the poems of 1934 James Brophy; 6. Different and the same: gender and pronoun in 'Poèmes 1937-1939' Daniel Katz; 7. The missing poème: Beckett's fêtes galantes Mark Nixon; 8. Romanticism and Beckett's poetry Edward Lee-Six; 9. Romance under strain in 'Cascando' John Pilling; 10. Samuel Beckett's self-translated poems Pascale Sardin; 11. Samuel Beckett's translations of Mexican poetry José Francisco Fernández; 12. Beckett's poetry and the radical absence of the (war) dead Adam Piette; 13. Beckett's sound sense William Davies; 14. The matter of absence: the manuscripts of Beckett's late poems Dirk Van Hulle; 15. 'Mocked by a tissue that may not serve': Beckett and the poetics of embodiment David Wheatley; 16. Invoking Beckett: Samuel Beckett's legacy in Northern Irish poetry Hannah Simpson.