Ballad (Irish)
There is a time to growl through the fence
& a time to follow that long shadow
with yr eyes to the beginning of what
you realize is the boot–top of the Giant.
Ekleksographia:
Wave Two
May, 2010
Poetry
Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully (born 1952) is an Irish poet and editor who works in the modernist tradition. He was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus. He has lived in Italy and Africa.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. 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 devoted to Irish modernist poetry. He is also a contributing editor to Golden Handcuffs. He usually writes longer poems than the presented here.