Life
1952- ; b. Dublin; collections incl. Love Poems & Others (Dublin:
Raven Arts Press 1981); Steps (1998); Five Freedoms of Movement
(1987; 2000); Over & Through (1992); The Basic Colours (1994);
also Priority (1995); Prelude (1997); Interlude (1997);
Postlude (1997), and Livelihood: Collected Poems 1981-2001 (2002),
from Wild Honey Press, Bray, Co. Wicklow; also Steps (1998); Cohering
(1999); co-ed. special issue on Irish experimental poetry for Angel
Exhaust ( London: Autumn 1998); taught at Dublin City University (DCU)
up to 2002; issued Livelihood (2004).
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Works
Poetry, Love Poems & Others (Dublin: Raven Arts Press 1981);
Five Freedoms of Movement (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Galloping Dog Press
1987), and Do. [new rev. edn. (Devon: Etruscan Books 2000); Over
& Through (Cambridge: Etruscan Books, 1992); The Basic Colours
(Durham: Pig Press 1994); Priority (London: Writers Forum 1995);
Prelude (Bray: Wild Honey Press 1997); Interlude (Bray:
Wild Honey Press 1997); Postlude (Bray: Wild Honey Press 1997);
Steps (London: Reality Street Editions 1998), 52pp; Cohering
(Devon: Etruscan Reader IV 1999); Livelihood: Collected Poems 1981-2001
(Bray: Wild Honey Press 2002), q.pp; Postlude (Wicklow: Wild
Honey Press), 32pp. [bound & sewn chapbook]. For children, What
Is The Cat Looking At? [bi-lingual ed.] (Berlin: Faber 1995); David
Annwn, Arcs Through: The Poetry of Randolph Healy, Billy Mills and
Maruce Scully (Dublin: Coelancth Press 2002), 40pp.; Maurice Scully, Livelihood (Bray: Wild Honey Press 2004), 346pp.
Criticism, [with John Goodby], ed., Colonies of Belief: Ireland's Modernists [Coelacanth Critical Essays Ser.] (Dublin: Coelacanth Press 2002].
Miscellaneous, represented in Sheppard & Robinson, eds., News for the Ear: A Homage to Roy Fisher (Exeter: Stride 2000); Caddel & Quartermain, eds., British & Irish Poetry Since 1970 (Wesleyan UP 1999); Frank Ormsby, ed., Hip Flask (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000); Eamon Hughes, ed., April Eye: Poems for Peter Riley (Cambridge: Infernal Methods 2000); Seán Ó Tuama, ed., Twentieth Century British & Irish Poetry (OUP 2001).
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Criticism
David Annwn, Arcs Through: The Poetry of Maurice Scully, with Randolph
Healy & Billy Mills (Coelancth Press [2003]), 40pp. [reviewed in Books
Ireland, Summer 2003].
Conleth Ellis, review of Paper Token (Coelacanth Press),
in Books Ireland, May
1987, p.100.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)