Maurice Scully

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Maurice Scully (born 1952) is an Irish poet who works in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. He is a member of Aosdana.^[1]

Life[]

After some years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin, where he now lives.^[2]

The Beau[]

The Beau was an annual literary journal edited by Scully. It ran to three issues: 1981, 1982/83 and 1983/84. Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from Ireland, Britain and the United States, was impressive and it played an important role in the emergence of a number of experimental Irish poets. It also carried reproductions by a number of Irish artists.

Contributors included Roy Fisher, , William Oxley, Randolph Healy, Brian Coffey, David Wright, Paul Durcan, , John Jordan, Anthony Cronin, Gavin Ewart, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker, Dermot Bolger and Jim Burns.

The featured painters were Michael Mulcahy, Patrick Hall, Alice Hanratty and Patrick Pye.

Published works[]

• Love Poems & Others (1981)
• 5 Freedoms of Movement (1987 & 2000)
• Steps (1998)
• Livelihood (2004)
• Sonata, (2006)
• Tig (2006)
• Doing the Same in English (2008)
• Humming (2009)
• A Tour of the Lattice (2011)
• Rain (2013)
• Several Dances (2014)
• Game On [with Jordi Valls Pozo] (2019)
• Play Book (2019)
• Things That Happen (2020)

• A book of essays on Scully's poetry A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric [Ed Kenneth Keating] appeared 2020

References[]

External links[]

• Author Page
• 'Rain', echapbook online at Smithereens Press
• Review of 'The Basic Colours'
• Review of 'Humming'
• Review of 'Several Dances'