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


Life

After some years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin. Scully died in Bolea, Spain on 5 March 2023.Maurice Scully, 'a true original in the world of Irish poetry', has died
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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
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, 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,
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, Paul Durcan, John Freeman, John Jordan, Anthony Cronin,
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, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker,
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. 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'' ith 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'' d Kenneth Keatingappeared in 2020


References


External links


Author Page


at Smithereens Press


Review of 'Humming'

Review of 'Several Dances'
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scully, Maurice 1952 births 2023 deaths Irish modernist poets Writers from County Dublin Aosdána members 20th-century Irish poets 21st-century Irish poets