Ancient Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson Patrick Dubost mediating role of the poet:

mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial’s work that still resonate today

’ – Don Maclennan

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

while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the ‘witchy-beetle

Ancient Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson Patrick Dubost mediating role of the poet: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 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