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In this collection of poems, Robin Skelton walks the edge, looking forwards and backwards. Meditating on roads taken and not taken, he employs his poetic gift to consider our relation to time: how we are immersed in it, and yet able to step through to other dimensions. One of Canada's finest translators, Skelton also includes a series of translations of such international modernist masters as Rilke, Baudelaire, and Yuli Daniel. The Edge of Tim...

In this collection of witty and trenchant aphorisms, Robin Skelton draws on the cynicism of La Rochefoucauld, the AufklÃÂ_rung insights of Lichtenberg and the devillish wiles of Ambrose Bierce to provide Canada with its own Devious Dictionary. Once again, Skelton proves himself to be a wizard of language. Illustrated with Ludwig Zeller\'s art collages.

In this delightful collection of animal fables, Robin Skelton transports young readers back to "long long ago" an ancient and fabulous time. These humorous stories offer solutions to such difficult questions as "Why does the ostrich bury its head in the ground?" Long Long Ago takes children into a wonderful world of fantasy and yet - as always with Skelton - the tales have unexpected endings. Pamela Breeze Currie's engaging pen-and-ink drawing...

A new formalism, a new spiritualism waits on the horizon. Always at the forefront, Robin Skelton takes up some of the oldest and most rigorous poetic forms to shape them to new ends. Here is an embarrassment of riches - villanellas, sestinas, sonnets, rondeaus, gloses, cinquains, and even arcane Welsh forms - to delight the most discerning of readers.

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Editor Harold Rhenisch brings together a collection that captures the grand style and thematic strength of poet Robin Skelton.

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The first collection of Robin Skeltons later poetry written at the apex of his career. These poems attest to his incredible range and prolific talent.

For a number of years Robin Skelton has been a major interpreter and definer of what we now mean by Anglo-Irish literature. This collection represents his own selection of fourteen of his best essays. All have been revised, several enlarged, and two are published here for the first time. Two major themes emerge from this collection: verse craftsmanship, with the language and structure of poetry, and a concern with the way that a writer can con...

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This invaluable compendium, consisting of over three hundred entries, presents all of the major and most of the minor verse forms from poetic traditions around the world. Skelton provides a synopsis of each form, together with a list of rules, and then brings each form to life with an original poem. The culmination of years of research, study, and creative effort, The Shapes of Our Singing is not only an unparalleled resource but also a striki...