Maurice Scully (1952 – 5 March 2023) was an Irish poet who worked in the
modernist tradition. Scully was born in
Dublin
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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.
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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 Ireland
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, Britain
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and the United States
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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, David Wright
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, Paul Durcan, John Freeman, John Jordan, Anthony Cronin, Gavin Ewart
Gavin Buchanan Ewart Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (4 February 1916 – 23 October 1995) was a British poet who contributed to Geoffrey Grigson's ''New Verse'' at the age of seventeen.
Early life
Gavin Ewart was born in Lond ...
, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker, Dermot Bolger
Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), ''T ...
Billy Mills
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and Jim Burns
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In 1966 he joined the Royal Air Force, but soon thereafter he left and signed up at th ...
.
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'
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1952 births
2023 deaths
Irish modernist poets
Writers from County Dublin
Aosdána members
20th-century Irish poets
21st-century Irish poets