One Leaf Shaking Author:Robin Skelton One Leaf Shaking is the first collection of Robin Skelton's later poetry in one volume, written during his fifties and sixties. The poems are taken from: Landmarks (1979), Limits (1981), Distances (1985) and Openings (1988), as well as two chapbooks and a manuscript. The book includes 17 poems which have not previously appeared in book format. I... more »n spare, direct language Skelton skillfully illuminates the small quotidian wonders of life on Canada's west coast. His writing is tactile, tender, written as if whispered in confidence to a close friend. "Skelton belongs to an educated class to whom language was a thing long ago tamed. His poetry is imbued with a sense of quiet wealth."-Books in Canada "Skelton's poetry is the poetry of a man to whom writing has become almost another way of deliberation - one senses a sureness, a familiarity with the line and what it can produce - Skelton wastes nothing."-Vancouver Province Robin Skelton is a poet, anthologist, editor, teacher, biographer, art and literary critic and initiated witch and occultist. By his 70th birthday he had over 100 books in print. His collection The Edge of Time (Ronsdale, 1995) was nominated for this year's BC Book Prize. He is founder of the Malahat Review and the founding chairman of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Victoria. He is presently an editor for Reference West, publishers of the award-winning Hawthorne Series of chapbooks Robin Skelton's other titles with Beach Holme Publishing: Wrestling the Angel: Collected Shorter Poems 1947-77 (1994) The Practice of Witchcraft (1990) The Magical Practice of Talismans (1991)« less