Abstract
The place Pearse Hutchinson inhabits in his poems is frequently that of discrete observance. The poet’s aesthetic is informed by sympathetic attention; his unprejudiced gaze takes in the whole world; his vision is panoptic, his ears are all-hearing, panacoustic, his judgement is never less than gracious and inclusive. Occasionally it happens that observed and overheard scenes and events combine in a dazzling moment of synaesthetic illumination, as in the last stanza of the poem A Findrum Blackbird:
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