NMLP P-041983 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Whoroscope

Samuel Beckett · The Hours Press (Nancy Cunard), Paris · 1930

The critical and most frequently absent point is the publisher's printed paper belly band, which announces that the poem took the prize in Nancy Cunard's Hours Press competition for the best poem on the subject of Time, judged by Richard Aldington and Cunard; the great majority of surviving copies lack it

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041983 for "Whoroscope" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041983, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).