MacPherson, Robin Fulton

In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and essayist, for many years editing Lines Review. His homebase since 1973 has been Norway, and in the decades since then he has built a solid reputation as a translator of Scandinavian poets, such as Tomas Transtromer, Kjell Espmark and Harry Martinson from Swedish, and Olav H. Hauge from Norwegian. James McGonigal has described his earlier poems as "detached, meditative, lyrical and melancholy, often with a sense of deep psychological disturbance just beyond the edge of his local landscape...