Maurice Scully
{{Short description|Irish poet (1952–2023)}}
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| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| death_date = 5 March 2023 (aged 70–71)
| death_place = Bolea, Spain
| nationality = Irish
| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin
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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.[http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Literature/Scully.aspx Aosdana Profile]
Life
After some years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin.[http://www.shearsman.com/browse-poetry-books-by-author-Maurice-Scully Shearsman Author Page]
Scully died in Bolea, Spain on 5 March 2023.[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/03/06/maurice-scully-a-true-original-in-the-world-of-irish-poetry-has-died/ Maurice Scully, 'a true original in the world of Irish poetry', has died]
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, 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 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 in 2020
References
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External links
- [https://www.shearsman.com/store/Scully-Maurice-c28271925 Author Page]
- [http://smithereenspress.com/publications/sp2.html 'Rain', echapbook online] at Smithereens Press
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20031017222716/http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr5/reviews/ireland1.html Review of 'The Basic Colours']
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160216132112/http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/paul-perry-reviews-humming-maurice-scully Review of 'Humming']
- [https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/several-dances-by-maurice-scully-a-review/ Review of 'Several Dances']
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Category:Irish modernist poets
Category:Writers from County Dublin