Person

Manson, John

1932

John Manson was b. in 1932 in Caithness; John’s working life has been spent in crofting, reading/writing and teaching ... Manson is a retired schoolteacher, a poet and translator; edited Hugh MacDiarmid’s Selected Poems, The revolutionary art of the future, and Dear Grieve; translated many writers into English, including Paul Eluard and Victor Serge; translated César Vallejo and Manuel Bandeira into Scots