In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and, in the decades since, he has built a solid reputation as a translator of Scandinavian poets, such as Tomas Tranströmer, Kjell Espmark and Harry Martinson from Swedish and Olav H. Hauge from Norwegian. His A Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 1960–2010 (Marick Press, 2013) was described by Carol Rumens in The Guardian as “a major achievement, enriching the habitat of contemporary letters in our own archipelago and beyond.”...
In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been ...
Ancient Light is Robin Fulton Macpherson's third Shearsman collection, following 2020's Arrivals of Light. Long an expatriate in Norway he is also celebrated for his translations from Swedish and Norwegian.
Ancient Light is Robin Fulton Macpherson's third Shearsman collection, following 2020's Arrivals of Light. Long an expatriate in Norway he is also cel...
