Editor’s Note = Note de la rédaction And a Farewell to Angela Moorjani Leaving the Advisory Board = Et adieu à Angela Moorjani qui quitte le comité consultatif

This first issue of the 2025 volume of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui is devoted not to a single theme; rather, its three parts explore some current research trends in Beckett studies.¹ Part 1 comprises five articles on Beckett’s poetry, the first four of which were developed out of presentations given at the 7th International Conference of The Samuel Beckett Society, ‘Beckett & Poetry’, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 26 until 28 October 2022. The local organizers of this conference in Argentina were Lucas Margarit and María Inés Castagnino, and the editorial and advisory board of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui would like to thank both sincerely for their cooperation with the journal. Maria Castagnino has been essential in liaising between the authors of the conference and the journal. A number of contributions to this conference that were presented in Spanish have been published in 2023 in the latest issue of the review Beckettiana (no. 20), the online, open-access Spanish language review based in Argentina and devoted to Beckett studies. The five articles that we publish here often show the close connections between Beckett’s own poetry (or his preference for certain poets), on the one hand, and his other literary work on the other. This is because of strong thematic connections between the poetry and the prose, and also because of the poems by Beckett that are integrated in the other texts—or that are alluded to in the prose or theatre (the latter ones written by other poets than Beckett). The board of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui is pleased to be able to publish these contributions to the analysis of an aspect of Beckett’s work that has received less attention.