Pearse Hutchinson
Pearse Hutchinson was born in Glasgow of Irish parents in 1927 and reared in Dublin. A polyglot, he lived in Spain for almost ten years in the 1950s and 60s. His collections include
Tongue Without Hands (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1963); Faoistin Bhacach (Baile Átha Cliath, An Clóchomhar, 1968); Expansions (The Dolmen Press, 1969); Le Cead na Gréine (An Clóchomhar, 1992);
Watching the Morning Grow (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1972);
The Frost is all Over (The Gallery Press, 1975); Selected Poems (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1980);
Climbing the Light (The Gallery Press, 1985); The Soul that Kissed the Body
(Selected Poems in Irish with translations into English, The Gallery Press, 1990);
Barnsley Mainstream (The Gallery Press, 1995); Collected Poems (The Gallery Press, 2002), published to mark his 75th birthday; and At Least for a While (The Gallery Press, 2008).
He has also published translations
from Catalan and Galicoportugeuse, and, with Melita Cataldi, Italian
versions of Old Irish Poetry. Done into English, a collection of translations - notably from Catalan and Gallico-Portugeuse - was published by The Gallery Press in 2003.
An editor of Cyphers and a member of
Aosdána, he lives in Dublin .
