Alexander Norman Hutchison (20 October 1943 – 22 November 2015) was a Scottish poet with Canadian citizenship whose professional career included spells in Canada, the USA, and Scotland.
He deposited a significant amount of archive material with the University of Victoria library, including early drafts, manuscript proofs, and correspondence.
[10] In 1989 he set up the Galliard publishing imprint with the Scottish poet and editor Duncan Glen, a project that remained active until 1992.
August Kleinzahler contributed the following to the book jacket: '[Hutchison] has the ferocity, indignation and bite of the old flytings, even the mad word-hoard of the Admirable Urquhart of Cromarty; a Scots Martial, but with the unabashed tenderness and exactitude of John Clare describing water lilies or Gerhard in his Herbal, on the subject of the Wild Chervil.
It featured translations of his poems plus Hutchison’s versions of the works of Latin poet Catullus and leading Italian intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini in English and Scots.
Just days before he died, Gavia Stellata, a book of his poems translated into Spanish by Juana Adcock, was issued by Mexican publisher Mantis Editores.