Hugh Maxton (born 1947), alias W. J. McCormack, is an Irish poet and academic.
William (Bill) John McCormack was born near Aughrim, County Wicklow in 1947.
[1] He attended Rathgar (Methodist) National School and won a scholarship to Wesley College, Dublin (1959-65).
He was awarded a personal chair in Literary History at Goldsmiths, University of London in 1995.
He has written a large number of books of poetry as well as translations from Hungarian and German.