Editing Maurice Scully

{{Short description|Irish poet (1952–2023)}}
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| birth_date  = {{birth-date|1952}}
| 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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| occupation  = Poet, teacher
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'''Maurice Scully''' (1952 – 5 March 2023) was an Irish poet who worked in the [[Modernist poetry|modernist tradition]]. Scully was born in [[Dublin]] and educated at [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College]]. He was a member of [[Aosdana]].<ref>[http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Literature/Scully.aspx Aosdana Profile]</ref>

==Life==
After some years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin.<ref>[http://www.shearsman.com/browse-poetry-books-by-author-Maurice-Scully Shearsman Author Page]</ref>

Scully died in [[Bolea]], Spain on 5 March 2023.<ref>[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]</ref>

==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  [[Irish poetry|Ireland]], [[British poetry|Britain]] and [[Poetry of the United States|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 art]]ists.

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

The featured painters were [[Michael Mulcahy (painter)|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:20th-century Irish poets]]
[[Category:21st-century Irish poets]]