Robin Skelton

For ROBIN SKELTON, poetry was a calling. He was famed internationally for his commitment to poetry and his mastery of poetic forms. Before his death in 1997, he published over 30 books of poetry, was a passionate anthologist and translator, author of four books of poetic theory and instruction, and was known as Canada's premier poetic craftsman. Skelton founded the Creative Writing Department at the University of Victoria, where he taught poetry, prosody, and publishing from 1963 until his retirement in 1990. He was a founding editor of The Malahat Review which under his stewardship, became one of the few prestigious and truly international literary magazines in the English speaking world.