Play Book is the new collection of poems by Irish poet, Maurice Scully. His writing began in the early 1970s, and since 1981 he has published 10 books of poetry with publishers such as Wild Honey Press and Shearsman Books. Maurice Scully has been editor of a number of influential magazines (Icarus, and The Beau), and through the 1970s and 1980s organised important readings and literary gatherings, and over the years he has taken part in conferences and festivals in Ireland, the UK, and the US, where his readings are prized as key interpretations of his complex work. – Coracle Books
This collection, published by Ireland’s Coracle Books, includes works previously published in Scully’s chapbook Play. The book opens with two poems on play—one about a dog playing with a tennis ball and another about a game of tiddlywinks. The rest of the book follows with the theme of language as play. In Play Book, Scully uses short lines and assonant staccato phrases.