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Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952.
His books include Love Poems & Others (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1981);
5 Freedoms of Movement (Swansea, Galloping Dog Press,1987 [2nd edition, South Devonshire,
Etruscan Books, 2001]); The Basic Colours (Durham, Pig Press, 1994);
Priority (London, Writers’ Forum, 1995); Steps (London, Reality Street Editions, 1998);
Livelihood (Bray, Wild Honey Press, 2004), Tig (Exeter, Shearsman Books, 2006);
and Sonata (Reality Street Editions, 2006).
He has also produced a number of pamphlets, including Prior (Staple Diet 1991; Tel Let,
U.S. ed., 1992); Certain Pages (Form books, 1993), Over & Through
(Poetical Histories, 1993); and Prelude, Interlude, Postlude (all Wild Honey Press, 1997).
With the exception of Love Poems & Others, these poems and pamphlets
constellate a single, long work, Things That Happen, composed over 25 years.
He is the author of a bilingual childrens’ book in collaboration with
the German artist Bianca Grunwald-Game, What Is The Cat Looking At?
(London, Faber & Faber, 1995).
He has also published Mouthpuller, a CD, which includes a selection from Livelihood read by the author.
Scully edited The Beau magazine and Beau Press rom 1981 to 1984,
and managed a series of readings, talks and shows by poets, painters,
architects, composers etc, the Beau Events, through the early 1980s.
He was the recipient of the Macaulay Fellowship in 1981, Bursaries in Literature (1986, 1998), and
the Catherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2003.
He lives in Dublin.
