Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952.
From 1981 – 2006 he was engaged on a single project, the 8-book Things That Happen, currently available in 4 vols as 5 Freedoms of Movement (Devon, etruscan books); Livelihood (Wicklow, Wild Honey Press); Sonata (London, Reality Street Editions); and Tig (Exeter, Shearsman Books).
A selection of work from 1987 – 2008, Doing the Same in English, was published by Dedalus Press in 2008. Humming, a new work, appeared in 2009 from Shearsman Books.
Scully edited The Beau magazine, and Beau Press, from 1981–1984, 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 for his first book, Love Poems & Others, Bursaries in Literature (1986, 1988) and the Catherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2003.
A member of Aosdána, he lives in Dublin.
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Maurice Scully at Dedalus Press
Maurice Scully at Shearsman Books
Maurice Scully at The National Library of Ireland