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Alexander Hutchison,
poet and translator in Scots and English, was born in 1943 in Buckie in
the north-east of Scotland, and has worked mostly as a University teacher
– including 18 years in Canada and the USA. He currently lives in
Glasgow. His poems, including the underground perennial Mr Scales Walks
His Dog, began to appear in magazines in the early 1970s. His first
collection, Deep-Tap Tree (University
of Massachusetts Press (1978), is still in print. The Moon Calf was
published by Galliard in 1990, and Epitaph for a Butcher (1997)
and Sparks in the Dark (2002) both by Akros Publications. More
recent books are Carbon Atom (Link-light, 2006) and Scales
Dog: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2007). The poet's website includes
an extended interview with Andrew Duncan (from Don't Start Me Talking:
interviews with contemporary poets - Salt, 2007). His
Biography
adapted from the Scottish Poetry Library website.
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