Maurice Scully

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Maurice Scully
Born1952 (1952)
Dublin, Ireland
Died5 March 2023 (aged 70–71)
Bolea, Spain
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Occupation(s)Poet, teacher

Maurice Scully (1952 – 5 March 2023) was an Irish poet who worked in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. He was a member of Aosdana.[1]

Life[edit]

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

Scully died in Bolea, Spain on 5 March 2023.[3]

The Beau[edit]

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, Knute Skinner, William Oxley, Randolph Healy, Brian Coffey, David Wright, Paul Durcan, John Freeman, John Jordan, Anthony Cronin, Gavin Ewart, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker, Dermot Bolger Billy Mills (poet) and Jim Burns.

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

Published works[edit]

  • 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

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