Arrivals of 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>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>Northwards 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>