# Robin Skelton

Robin Skelton (Easington, 12 ottobre 1925 – Victoria, 22 agosto 1997) è stato uno scrittore e poeta britannico naturalizzato canadese.
Nato nello Yorkshire, Skelton studiò alla University of Leeds e alla Cambridge University. Dal 1944 al 1947, ha servito la Royal Air Force in India. Ha poi insegnato alla Manchester University. Nel 1963 emigrò in Canada e cominciò ad insegnare alla University of Victoria in Columbia Britannica.
Skelton fu un'autorità per quanto riguarda la letteratura irlandese, il suo lavoro come editore, e il suo interesse per l'occulto. Fu fondatore ed editore, con John Peter, di The Mahalat Review, e traduttore.
Georges Zuk, un creduto poeta surrealista francese, era in realtà uno pseudonimo.

## Opere
### Poesia

* 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)

### Romanzi

* 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)

### Saggi

* 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)
* 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)

### Memorie

* The Memoirs of A Literary Blockhead (1988)
* Portrait of My Father (1989)

### Antologie

* 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)
* 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 with William 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)

### Traduzioni

* 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)

### Libri su Robin Skelton

* 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)

## Bibliografia tradotta in italiano

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