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Maurice Scully (born 1952) is an Irish poet
Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise....
 and editor who works in the modernist
Modernist poetry

Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 in the tradition of modernist literature; the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates....
 tradition. Scully was born in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 and educated at Trinity College
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus
Icarus (magazine)

Icarus is a student literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since....
. He has lived in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
.

Scully's books include Love Poems & Others (1981), Five Freedoms of Movement (1987), revised edition (2000), Steps (1998) Livelihood (2004), Sonata (2006) and Tig (2006).






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Maurice Scully (born 1952) is an Irish poet
Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise....
 and editor who works in the modernist
Modernist poetry

Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 in the tradition of modernist literature; the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates....
 tradition. Scully was born in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 and educated at Trinity College
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus
Icarus (magazine)

Icarus is a student literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since....
. He has lived in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
.

Scully's books include Love Poems & Others (1981), Five Freedoms of Movement (1987), revised edition (2000), Steps (1998) Livelihood (2004), Sonata (2006) and Tig (2006). He founded and edited two literary journals, The Belle and The Beau
The Beau

The Beau was an annual literary journal edited by Maurice Scully. It ran to three issues: 1981, 1982/1983 and 1983/1984. Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from Irish poetry, British poetry and Poetry of the United States, was impressive and it played an important role in the emergence of a numb...
. He ran Coelacanth Press and organised a series of readings and events under that banner in the mid 1980s.

Scully was a guest-editor of a special issue of Angel Exhaust
Angel Exhaust

Angel Exhaust is a British poetry magazine founded by Steve Pereira and Adrian Clarke in the late 1970s. Andrew Duncan took over as editor in 1992, and by 1993 it was one of the first poetry magazines to appear regularly on the internet....
 devoted to Irish modernist poetry. He is also a contributing editor to Golden Handcuffs.

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