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Robin macpherson journaly1/3/2024 ![]() When Macpherson came across this quotation, he clearly recognized a kindred spirit. (Neither this poem nor ‘Coming Down into the First of Winter’ has made it into his recent ‘Collected Poems’, A Northern Habitat.) In another early poem, ‘In Memoriam Alberto Giacometti’, Macpherson started from a quoted remark, presumably by the sculptor himself: “The more you pare, the fatter it becomes”. When you see a stream you know it is a stream I have carried in my memory for most of my adult life three lines from his early poem, ‘Essentials’: But Macpherson is also capable of less ambiguous, wonderfully beautiful natural description. – perfectly factual statements in which the profound meaningfulness of nature, ordinarily obscured by our haste and preoccupation, makes itself felt – but at the same time a quality of eerie solitude is conveyed (and the poem turns out to be about an invalid, possibly someone dying). Tomorrow, I say, as if I’d forgotten something.Īnother poem, ‘Forecast for a Quiet Night’, begins:Ī secret cone will drop in Rothiemurchus. Tomorrow, I say, I’ll fly back to autumn, An early poem, ‘Coming Down into the First of Winter’, ends: The world is the world as we know it (most often a ‘Northern’ world, Scottish or Scandinavian, and most often out in the country, among forests or mountains), but the sensibility is strangely unsettled within these beautiful settings. A typical poem by Macpherson conveys simple truths, undoubtedly, often with great beauty, but often too, and particularly in the earlier poems, a profound sense of dislocation hovers invisibly in the atmosphere. For example, if you say that Macpherson’s original poetry is written in a quiet, careful voice, very accurate, never saying what he doesn’t mean, then that undoubtedly tells the truth, but it gives an entirely misleading impression. It’s as if whenever you start to say something about it, you are at once arrested by a quite contrary perception. In somewhat similar fashion, I find that when I think of Macpherson’s poetry the word that persistently presses upon me is ‘although’. The novelist Muriel Spark once said that when she thought of Edinburgh she was always reminded of the word ‘nevertheless’. ![]() I shall speak of him briefly here as a Scottish poet and editor, and will leave it to others to write about his other major contributions to literature, above all in recent decades as a translator. ![]() I would like to contribute something to this portfolio on Robin Fulton Macpherson (now an international figure, but whom I still think of as the Scottish poet who, under the name Robin Fulton, was an important contributor to the Scottish literary scene in the 1960s and 70s, before he moved to Norway). According to the website Podcast Industry Insights, there are more than 1.8 million podcasts to choose from!įor more information about this episode, visit .Ĭredit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by JahzzarRobin Fulton Macpherson: a note on the Scottish contribution In this episode, Andrew and Robin talk about the importance of podcast listening for language learning. Support Robin by following him on Instagram, subscribing to his Youtube channel, and checking out his website for practicing writing, Journaly. Step 1: listen for the gist and general meaning. Let me refresh your memory in case you forgot. Well, if you can’t remember, that’s all right. Quiz time: Do you remember what steps 1 to 3 were? Those are the steps we covered in Part 1 of the interview. And in our situation here, we focused on English by using a podcast. In Part 1 of the interview, Robin started to share the five-step method that he has for how to learn a language. And then you can come back and listen to the second part of the interview here. So if you haven’t heard Part 1 yet, make sure to check that episode out first. In this Chatterbox episode, you’ll get to listen to the second part of my interview with YouTuber and language education expert Robin MacPherson. We are back with Part 2 of Andrew’s interview with Robin MacPherson! In this episode, Robin shares the last two steps of his five-step method to better learn a new language.
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