Maurice Scully
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.
Maurice Scully
- Name
- Maurice Scully
- Born
- 1952
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
- Died
- 5 March 2023 (aged 70–71)
- Place of death
- Bolea, Spain
- Occupation
- Poet, teacher
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Fields
- poetry
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Maurice Scully • Born — 1952 • Birthplace — Dublin, Ireland • Died — 5 March 2023 (aged 70–71) • Place of death — Bolea, Spain • Alma Mater — Trinity College Dublin • Occupation — Poet, teacher
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Maurice Scully appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer (born 1952). The birth of Maurice Scully is recorded in 1952 in Dublin.
Life
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.
The Beau
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.
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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
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