The Beau was an annual literary journal edited by
Maurice ScullyMaurice Scully is an Irish poet and editor who works in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus...
. It ran to three issues: 1981, 1982/83 and 1983/84. Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from
IrelandThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. 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...
,
BritainBritish poetry is a term rarely used, as almost all poets of the British world are clearly identified with one of the various nations within those areas....
and
the United StatesThe poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified thirteen colonies . Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary British models of poetic form, diction, and theme...
, 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 artistsThe early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period...
.
Contributors included
Roy FisherRoy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was Born in Handsworth, Birmingham...
, Knute Skinner.
The Beau was an annual literary journal edited by
Maurice ScullyMaurice Scully is an Irish poet and editor who works in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus...
. It ran to three issues: 1981, 1982/83 and 1983/84. Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from
IrelandThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. 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...
,
BritainBritish poetry is a term rarely used, as almost all poets of the British world are clearly identified with one of the various nations within those areas....
and
the United StatesThe poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified thirteen colonies . Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary British models of poetic form, diction, and theme...
, 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 artistsThe early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period...
.
Contributors included
Roy FisherRoy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was Born in Handsworth, Birmingham...
, Knute Skinner. William Oxley,
Randolph HealyRandolph Healy is an Irish poet and publisher.Healy was born in Scotland and moved to Dublin at the age of 18 months. After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin. He now...
,
Brian CoffeyBrian Coffey was an Irish poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in science and philosophy, and his connection to surrealism. For these reasons, he is seen as being closer to an intellectual European Catholic tradition than to mainstream Irish Catholic...
,
David WrightDavid John Murray Wright was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".-Biography:Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing....
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Paul DurcanPaul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Life and Works:His main published collections include: A Snail in my Prime, Crazy About Women, Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil and Cries of an Irish Caveman...
,
John FreemanJohn Freeman may refer to:*John Freeman , British writer and editor*John Freeman , British poet*John Freeman , British Labour Party politician, television executive and presenter, former High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to the US*John Freeman , Victoria Cross recipient, 1857*John...
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John JordanJohn Jordan was an Irish poet born in Dublin on 8 April 1930. He was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College, Dublin and Pembroke College, Oxford. In his teens he acted on the stage of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, before winning a Scholarship in English and French to Oxford University from...
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Anthony CroninAnthony Cronin is an Irish poet. He received the Marten Toonder Award for his contribution to Irish literature....
,
Gavin EwartGavin Buchanan Ewart was a British poet best known for contributing to Geoffrey Grigson's New Verse at the age of seventeen.-Life:...
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Eoghan Ó TuairiscEoghan Ó Tuairisc was an Irish poet and writer.-Life:He was a native of Ballinasloe, County Galway and was educated at Garbally College. His entered St. Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Drumcondra in 1939, graduating with a Diploma in Education in 1945...
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George BarkerGeorge Granville Barker was an English poet and author.-Life and work:Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, and was raised by his Irish mother and English father in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school and at Regent Street Polytechnic...
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Dermot BolgerDermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin.His work is often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Bolger questions the relevance of traditional...
and Jim Burns.
The featured painters were
Michael MulcahyMichael Mulcahy is an Irish expressionist painter who lives and works in Paris, but returns frequently to Ireland.Michael Mulcahy was educated at the Crawford Municipal School of Art in Cork and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin...
,
Patrick HallPatrick Hall is a British politician. He is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bedford and Kempston.-Early life:...
,
Alice HanrattyAlice Hanratty is an Irish artist who specialises in printmaking. She studied painting and printmaking at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and the Hornsey College of Art, London...
and
Patrick PyePatrick Pye is a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin.Major commissions can be seen all over Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána. -External links:**...
.