Hugh Maxton

Hugh Maxton (born 1947), alias W. J. McCormack, is an Irish poet and academic. As a lecturer at the University of Leeds in Yorkshire, he focused on 19th- and 20th-century Irish literature.^[1] In addition to co-translating poetry from Hungarian and German, he has produced several volumes of poetry of his own, the most recent being Same Bridge Perhaps (Duras Press, 2013).

References

1. Bradley, Anthony (1980). Contemporary Irish poetry: an anthology. University of California Press. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-520-03389-4.

External links

• "Hugh Maxton", Current members — Aosdána.
• http://www.irishwriters-online.com/hughmaxton.html