Steven Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Modernist Studies, and Co-Director of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, at the University of Reading, UK. His books include Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation (1997); Yeats as Precursor (2000); Les Murray (2001), and Modernism: A Sourcebook (2008). T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature appeared in 2013, and Ceaseless Music, a critical-creative reflection on Wordsworth's The Prelude, in 2017. His edition of Samuel Beckett's Philosophy Notes, with Matthew Feldman, was published in 2020, and the edited The Waste Land after One Hundred Years in 2022. He has published three poetry collections: Skying (2012), On Magnetism (2017), and Some Other Where (2023).