- Robin Skelton
Robin Skelton (
October 12 1925 –August 22 1997 ) was a British-bornacademic ,writer ,poet , andanthologist .Born in Easington,
Yorkshire , Skelton was educated at theUniversity of Leeds andCambridge University . From 1944 to 1947, he served with theRoyal Air Force inIndia . He later taught atManchester University . In 1963, he emigrated toCanada , and began teaching at theUniversity of Victoria inBritish Columbia .Skelton was an authority on
Irish literature . He is well known for his work as a literary editor and for his interest in theoccult . He was a founder and editor, withJohn Peter , of "The Mahalat Review", and a translator.Georges Zuk, a purported French surrealist poet, was a
pseudonym .Bibliography
Poetry
*"Patmos, And Other Poems" (1955)
*"The Poetic Pattern" (1956)
*"Third Day Lucky" (1958)
*"The Cavalier Poets" (1960)
*"Begging the Dialect: Poems and Ballads" (1960)
*"Two Ballads of the Muse" (1960)
*"The Dark Window" (1962
*"A Valedictory Poem Upon His Departure from Manchester, England, for the New World" (1963)
*"An Irish Gathering" (1964)
*"A Ballad of Billy Barker" (1965)
*"Because of This and Other Poems" (1968)
*"The Hold of Our Hands : Eight Letters to Sylvia" (1968)
*"Selected Poems, 1947-1967" (1968)
*"An Irish Album" (1969)
*"Answers: Poems" (1969)
*"The Hunting Dark" (1971)
*"Private Speech: Messages, 1962-1970" (1971)
*"A Different Mountain, Messages 1962 – 1970: Poems And Photo-Collages" (1971)
*"Remembering Synge" (1971)
*"Musebook" (1972)
*"Three For Herself" (1972)
*"Country Songs" (1973)
*"Timelight" (1974)
*"The Poet's Calling" (1975)
*"The Limners" (1975)
*"Callsigns" (1976)
*"Mystics Mild: Song" (1976)
*"Because of Love" (1977)
*"Three Poems" (1977)
*"Poetic Truth" (1978)
*"Landmarks" (1979)
*"They Call It the Cariboo" (1980)
*"Limits" (1981)
*"Collected Shorter Poems, 1947-1977" (1981)
*"Zuk" (1982)
*"The Paper Cage" (1982)
*"De Nihilo" (1982)
*"Wordsong: Twelve Ballads" (1983)
*"The Collected Longer Poems, 1947-1977" (1985)
*"Distances" (1985)
*"Fires Of the Kindred" (1987)
*"Telling the Tale" (1987)
*"Openings" (1988)
*"Celtic Contraries" (1989)
*"A Formal Music: Poems in Classical Metres" (1993)
*"Popping Fuchsias: Poems, 1987-1992" (1992)
*"A Formal Music: Poems In Classical Metres" (1993)
*"Islands: Poems in The Traditional Forms And Metres Of Japan" (1993)
*"I Am Me: Rhymes For Small" (1994)
*"A Way of Walking : Poems in the Traditional Forms and Metres of Japan" (1994)
*"Wrestling the Angel: Collected Shorter Poems, 1947-1977" (1994)
*"Samhain" (1994)
*"The Edge Of Time: Poems And Translations" (1995)
*"Three for Nick" (1995)
*"One Leaf Shaking: Collected Later Poems, 1977-1990" (1996)
*"A Further Spring: Love Poems" (1996)
*"Lens of Crystal: Poems" (1996)
*"Long, Long Ago" (1996)
*"Love Poems: A Further Spring" (1996)
*"Or So I Say: Contentions and Confessions - A Happenstance Book" (1998)
*"The Shapes of Our Singing" (1999)Fiction
*"The Man Who Sang In His Sleep" (1984)
*"The Parrot Who Could" (1987)
*"Fires of the Kindred" (1987)
*"Hanky-Panky and Other Stories" (1990)
*"Higgledy Piggledy" (1992)Non-fiction
*"John Ruskin: The Final Years" (1955)
*"Teach Yourself Poetry" (1963)
*"The Practice of Poetry" (1971)
*"J. M. Synge and His World" (1971, U.S. title: "The Writings of J. M. Synge")
*"Spellcraft: A Manual of Verbal Magic" (1978)
*"Herbert Siebner" (1979)
*"They Call It The Cariboo" (1980)
*"Magical Practice of Talismans" (1985, U.S. title: "Talismanic Magic")
*"Practice of Witchcraft Today: An Introduction to Beliefs & Rituals of the Old Religion" (1988)
*"A Gathering of Ghosts" (1989, with Jean Kozocari)
*"A Witches' Book of Ghosts and Exorcism" (1990, with Jean Kozocari)
*"Earth Air, Fire, Water : Pre-Christian and Pagan Elements in British Songs, Rhymes and Ballads" (1990, with Margaret Blackwood)
*"Practice of Witchcraft Today: An Introduction To Beliefs and Rituals" (1990)
*"The Record of A Logophile" (1990)
*"A Devious Dictionary" (1991)Memoir
*"The Memoirs of A Literary Blockhead" (1988)
*"Portrait of My Father" (1989)Anthologies
*"Translations by J. M. Synge" (1961)
*"Edward Thomas: Selected Poems" (1962)
*"Collected Works of J. M. Synge" (1962)
*"Six Irish Poets: Austin Clarke, Richard Kell, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Richard Murphy, Richard Weber" (1962)
*"Penguin Book of Poetry of the Thirties" (1963)
*"Collected Poems of David Gascoyne" (1965)
*"The World of W B Yeats: Essays in Perspective" (1965, with Anne Saddlemyer)
*"Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs and Letters from the Massachusetts Review" (1965, with David R. Clark)
*"The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation" (1966, with Thomas E. Marston and George O. Painter)
*"Inscriptions" (1967, with Herbert Siebner)
*"Five Poets of the Pacific Northwest" (1968)
*"Poetry of the Forties" (1968)
*"Contemporary Poetry of British Columbia" (1970)
*"Collected Verse Translations of David Gascoyne" (1970)
*"Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium" (1970)
*"Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats" (1971)
*"Selected Poems Of Byron" (1971)
*"Introductions from an Island 1973: New Writing for Students in the Creative Writing Programme" (1973)
*"A Gathering in Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Robert Graves" (1975, edited withWilliam Thomas )
*"Six Poets of British Columbia" (1980)
*"From Syria by Ezra Pound" (1981)
*"Herbert Siebner: A Celebration" (1993)
*"Dark Seasons A Selection of Georg Trakl Poems" (1994)
*"The Shapes of Our Singing: A Guide to the Meters and Set Forms of Verse from Around the World" (2002)Translations
*"Georges Zuk: Selected Verse" (1969)
*"200 Poems from the Greek Anthology" (1971)
*"The Underwear of the Unicorn by Georges Zuk" (1975)
*"George Faludy: Selected Poems, 1933-80" (1985)
*"Briefly Singing : A Gathering of Erotic Satirical and Other Inscriptions Epigrams and Lyrics from the Greek and Roman Mediterranean 800 BC - AD 1000 Including the Complete Poems of Rufinus" (1994)
*"Rufinus. The Complete Poems" (1997)References
*Robin Skelton. "The Record of A Logophile". Victoria: Reference West, 1990.
*Barbara L. Turner, ed. "Skelton at 60". Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 1986.
*John Skelton. "Skelton at Seventy: A Major Retrospective Exhibition" (1993)
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