Ancient Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson Patrick Dubost Rice maintains an eloquent refusal

Rice maintains an eloquent refusal to glamorise

’ – Don Maclennan

the neat or the certain

prompting what she calls 'a spontaneous inundation of approaches to the theme

Ancient Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson Patrick Dubost Rice maintains an eloquent refusalIn 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 Transtrmer, Kjell Espmark and Harry Martinson from Swedish and Olav H. Hauge from Norwegian. His A Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 19602010 (Marick Press, 2013) was described by Carol