Samuel Beckett's Poetry

The Telegraph on Seán Lawlor and John Pilling new critical edition

Samuel Beckett with Alan Schneider on the set of Film

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (The Telegraph) reviews Faber and Faber's recent edition of The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett: 'Writing poetry allowed Beckett to reconcile his deep love of language with his equally deep distrust of it. Here he could indulge his taste for opulent phrasemaking within a form that was always at risk of breaking down, before finding the strength to continue. As a poet, Beckett repeatedly found himself saying, like the narrator of his 1953 novel The Unnamable, “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”' [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Writers: Samuel Beckett
• The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
• Happy Days: Enniskillen International Beckett Festival