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Reading Pearse Hutchinson: From Findrum to Fisterra
€44.99
Reading Pearse Hutchinson gathers together a diverse group of scholars who engage with the varied aspects of the poet’s achievement – from his poems in English and Irish to translations from European languages such as Catalan, Spanish and Galaico-Portuguese.
Description
Born in Glasgow in 1927 of Irish parents, Pearse Hutchinson moved to Dublin in 1932, and was educated at Synge Street and University College Dublin. His first published poems were in The Bell in 1945, and since then he has published over a dozen separate collections of poems in English, Irish, and in translation from several European languages.
Reflecting the astonishing linguistic and cultural range of Hutchinson’s interests and projects as a writer, Reading Pearse Hutchinson gathers together a diverse group of scholars who engage with the varied aspects of the poet’s achievement – from his poems in English and Irish to translations from European languages such as Catalan, Spanish and Galaico-Portuguese. Essays explore Hutchinson’s interests in Irish and European history and politics, as well as his examinations of sexuality and the body, music, the aesthetics of memory, and the poetics of friendship.
Table of Contents
Foreword Macdara Woods
- Philip Coleman (Trinity College Dublin), ~ ‘Pearse Hutchinson: Chronology’.
- Philip Coleman (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Johnston (Trinity College Dublin and the Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University), ~ ‘Reading Pearse Hutchinson: Introduction’.
- Robert Welch (University of Ulster), ~ ‘The Solar Energy of Pearse Hutchinson’.
- Maria Johnston (Trinity College Dublin and the Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University), ~ ‘Music in Pearse Hutchinson’s Poetry’.
- Andrew Goodspeed (South East European University, Macedonia), ~ “The Gentle Are More Real than the Violent”: Violence, Bigotry, and Humanity in Pearse Hutchinson’s Poetry’.
- Philip Coleman (Trinity College Dublin), ~ ‘Pearse Hutchinson and the Poetics of Friendship’
- Moynagh Sullivan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), ~ “No Undue Details”: Love, Sex, and Embodiment in the Poetry of Pearse Hutchinson’.
- Kit Fryatt (Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University), ~ ‘“Buying a Minster Minute”: Reflections on “Barnsley Main Seam”’.
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Trinity College Dublin), ~ ‘“Odes to the Future”: Pearse Hutchinson’s Poetry and History’.
- Lucy Collins (University College Dublin), ~ ‘“An Almost Invisible Thread”: The Aesthetics of Memory in the Poetry of Pearse Hutchinson’.
- Ciaran O’Driscoll (Poet), ~ ‘“That Small, Vast Space”: Minute Details and Brief Moments in the Poetry of Pearse Hutchinson’.
- Martín Veiga (University College Cork), ~ ‘Travelling South: Representations of Iberia in the Poetry of Pearse Hutchinson’.
- Benjamin Keatinge (South East European University, Macedonia), ~ ‘“The Long-banned Speech We Talked In”: Pearse Hutchinson and Minority Voices’.
- Bernard Escarbelt (Université Lille 3), ~ ‘On Translating Pearse Hutchinson’s Irish Poems into French’.
- Máirtín Coilféir (Trinity College Dublin), ~ ‘Cúlra agus Mórthéamaí Faoistin Bhacach agus Le Cead na Gréine’.
About the Editors
Philip Coleman is a Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He has edited collections of essays on literature and science and on the poetry of John Berryman. His book ‘The Scene of Disorder’: John Berryman and the Public Sphere will be published by UCD Press in 2011.
Maria Johnston teaches poetry at Trinity College Dublin and the Mater Dei Institute. She is a regular reviewer of contemporary poetry for journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, and her edited collection of essays on poetry and politics is forthcoming.
