Garrie Hutchinson

Garrie Hutchinson (born 1949) is an Australian poet and prose writer.

Life
Hutchinson was born in Melbourne. In the later 1960s and early 1970s he was involved in the performance poetry, alternative journalism, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. He was thrown out of his parents' home due to his opposition to the Vietnam War. He lived in England in 1968, allegedly to avoid military conscription.

He published three collections of poetry in the 1970s.

He was theatre critic for the Australian from 1973 to 1976. In the later 1970s he began to pursue a journalism career, and was a football writer for the Age in the 1980s. He has since written several books on sports, military history, travel, and other general interest prose.

He has served as a speechwriter for several national and Victorian politicians. In the mid 2000s he worked as a veterans' heritage officer for the government of Victoria, but resigned when Australian veterans led a campaign to have him removed from his job.

Poetry

 * Dart Objects: Poured Concrete, 1967–71, Melbourne: Synergetic Press, 1971.
 * Nothing Unsayable Said Right: 50 Poems, 1968–72. Melboune: Sun Books, 1974.
 * Terror Australis: Poems. Fitzroy, Vic: Outback Press, 1975.

Non-fiction

 * Not Going to Vietnam. Sceptre, 1999.