In this poem I am: selected poetry of Robin Skelton

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Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Portrait of the Poet as A Book: An Introduction by Harold Rhenisch -- I Watching the House Move -- The House (1995) -- Flux (1981) -- In This Poem I Am (1981) -- Back Again (1981) -- Burning Sticks, Mallorca (1974) -- Limits (1981) -- Marigolds (1985) -- II A Family Life -- Kinship (1981) -- Prayer Before Birth (1985) -- The Waking (1972) -- Autobiography -- Land Without Customs (1960) -- The Circumcision (1974) -- Alison Jane Skelton (1962) -- A Son Sleeping (1958) -- Triptych (1981) -- Heritage (1981);In a country in which poetry has been largely private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style: flowing beard, mane of white hair, rings on every finger, huge amulet around his neck, all topped off with a black hat that looked as if it came from a Venetian gondolier but was really picked up at the re-enactment of a Cariboo Gold Rush-era general store in Barkerville, B.C. In this selection of his best verse there are poems of "high" and "low" art, spells and prayers, meditations, shemanic maps, and, in the centre of the book, "messages," those strange, inspired "gif.