Pearse Hutchinson was born in Glasgow in 1927 of Irish parents, reared in Dublin since 1932, and educated at Synge Street and University College, Dublin.

The Dolmen Press published his first collections, Tongue without Hands, (1963) and Expansions (1969). For thirty years The Gallery Press has been publishing his work -- Watching the Morning Grow (1972), The Frost is All Over (1975), Selected Poems (1980), Climbing the Light (1985), The Soul That Kissed the Body (Selected Poems in Irish with translations into English, 1990), Barnsley Main Seam (1995), Collected Poems (2002) and Done Into English (2003).

Pearse Hutchinson lives in Dublin. He is co-editor of Cyphers and a member of Aosdána.