Alexander Hutchison, a poet and translator in Scots and English, was born in 1943 in Buckie in the north-east of Scotland, and worked mostly as a University teacher, including eighteen years in Canada and the USA. His first book Deep-Tap Tree (University of Massachusetts Press, 1978) is still in print. Other collections include The Moon Calf (Galliard, 1990) and Carbon Atom (Link-Light, 2006). ‘Melodic Cells’, an interview with Hutchison conducted by Andrew Duncan appears in Don’t Start Me Talking: Interviews with Contemporary Poets. (Salt: Cambridge, 2006). Salt also published Scales Dog: New and Selected Poems in 2007 and Bones & Breath (2013), which won the Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year in 2014.
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Alexander Hutchison
March 2014
Alexander Hutchison talks about his most recent collection Bones & Breath, tardigrades, ancient spears, the poet’s voice and much more!
