Ancient Light

<p>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. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>His <em>A Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 1960-2010</em> (Marick Press 2013) was described by Carol Rumens in <em>The Guardian</em> as a major achievement enriching the habitat of contemporary letters in our own archipelago and beyond. John Glenday in <em>Northwords Now</em> referred to the book as a real treasure of a collection a weighty important reminder that Fulton Macpherson is a prominent figure in Scottish poetry... His poetry is enduring as granite. It will weather well while Peter M. McDonald in <em>Rain Taxi</em> felt certain that <em>A Northern Habitat</em> will stand the test of time. It is arguably the most important book yet from a Scottish poet in this new millennium.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em>Ancient Light</em> is his third Shearsman collection following 2020's <em>Arrivals of Light</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Many of these [ poems in <em>Arrivals of Light </em>] consist of just a few lines but they're suffused with a remarkable keenness of eye and especially freshness of thought and phrase. The very title ... speaks to a sense of continuing revelation or more accurately revelations. -Chris Powici <em>Northwords Now</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>