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); and Collected Poems (The Gallery Press, 2002), published to mark his 75th birthday.
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 .
