He was born in Easington , Yorkshire and was educated at the University Of Leeds . From 1963 he taught at the University Of Victoria In British Columbia .
, a purported French surrealist poet, was a Pseudonym .
- ''Patmos, And Other Poems'' (1955)
- ''The Poetic Pattern'' (1956)
- ''Third Day Lucky'' (1958) poems
- ''The Cavalier Poets'' (1960)
- ''Begging the Dialect: Poems & Ballads'' (1960)
- ''Two Ballads of the Muse'' (1960)
- ''Translations by J. M. Synge'' (1961) editor
- ''The Dark Window'' (1962)
- ''Edward Thomas - Selected Poems'' (1962)
- ''Collected Works of J. M. Synge'' (1962) editor
- ''---''Four Plays and the Aran Islands
- ''Six Irish Poets: Austin Clarke, Richard Kell, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Richard Murphy, Richard Weber'' (1962) editor
- ''A Valedictory Poem Upon His Departure from Manchester, England, for the New World'' (1963) chapbook
- ''Teach Yourself Poetry'' (1963)
- ''Penguin Book of Poetry of the Thirties'' (1963) editor
- ''An Irish Gathering'' (1964)
- ''Voice on a Birthday'' (1964) broadside poem
- ''A Ballad of Billy Barker'' (1965)
- ''Collected Poems of David Gascoyne'' (1965) editor
- ''The World of W B Yeats: Essays in Perspective'' (1965) editor 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) Kenneth O. Hanson , Richard Hugo , Carolyn Kizer , William Stafford , David Wagoner
- ''Because of This and Other Poems'' (1968)
- ''The Hold of Our Hands : Eight Letters to Sylvia'' (1968)
- ''Selected Poems, 1947-1967'' (1968)
- ''Poetry of the Forties'' (1968) editor
- ''An Irish Album'' (1969)
- ''Answers: Poems'' ( Enitharmon Press 1969)
- ''Georges Zuk: Selected Verse'' (1969) translator
- ''Collected Verse Translations of David Gascoyne'' (1970) edited with Alan Clodd
- ''Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium'' (1970) editor
- ''The Hunting Dark'' (1971) poems
- ''Private Speech: Messages 1962-1970'' (1971) poems
- ''A Different Mountain, Messages 1962 – 1970: Poems And Photo-Collages'' (1971)
- ''200 Poems from the Greek Anthology'' (1971) translator
- ''The Practice of Poetry.(1971)
- ''Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats'' (1971) editor
- ''J. M. Synge and His World'' (1971) as The Writings of J. M. Synge'' (US)
- ''Selected Poems Of Byron'' (1971) editor
- ''Friedrich Nietzsche- A Symposium'' (1972) editor with David S Thatcher , in the Mahalat Review
- ''Remembering Synge'' (1971) poem
- ''Musebook'' (1972)
- ''Three For Herself'' (1972)
- ''Country Songs'' (1973)
- ''Introductions from an Island 1973: New Writing for Students in the Creative Writing Programme'' (1973) editor
- ''Timelight'' (1974) poems
- ''A Gathering in Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Robert Graves'' (1975) edited with William Thomas
- ''The Poet's Calling'' (1975)
- ''The Underwear of the Unicorn by Georges Zuk'' (1975) translator
- ''The Limners'' (Pharos Press 1975)
- ''Callsigns'' (1976)
- ''Mystics Mild: Song'' (1976) poem
- ''Hypothesis for Ted Hughes'' (1976) broadside poem
- ''Because of Love'' (1977)
- ''Three Poems'' (1977)
- ''Spellcraft: A Manual of Verbal Magic'' (1978)
- ''Poetic Truth'' (1978)
- ''Landmarks'' (1979)
- ''Herbert Siebner'' (1979)
- ''They Call It the Cariboo'' (1980)
- ''Six Poets of British Columbia'' (1980) editor, Rona Murray , Charles Lillarrd , Leona Gom , Ken Cathers , Theresa Kishkan , Harold Rhenisch
- ''Limits'' (1981)
- ''Collected Shorter Poems 1947-1977'' (1981)
- ''From Syria by Ezra Pound'' (1981) editor
- ''Zuk'' (1982) poem
- ''The Paper Cage'' (1982)
- ''De Nihilo'' (1982)
- ''House Of Dreams'' (1983) collages
- ''Wordsong: Twelve Ballads'' (1983)
- ''The Man Who Sang In His Sleep'' (1984) stories
- ''The Collected Longer Poems, 1947-1977'' (1985)
- '' George Faludy : Selected Poems, 1933-80'' (1985) editor and translator
- ''Distances'' (1985)
- ''Magical Practice of Talismans'' (1985) as Talismanic Magic'' (US)
- ''Fires Of the Kindred'' (1987)
- ''Telling the Tale'' (1987)
- ''The Parrot Who Could'' (1987)
- ''Fires of the Kindred'' (1987)
- ''The Memoirs of A Literary Blockhead'' (1988)
- ''Openings'' (1988)
- ''Practice of Witchcraft Today: An Introduction To Beliefs & Rituals Of The Old Religion'' (1988)
- ''A Gathering of Ghosts'' (1989) with Jean Kozocari
- ''Celtic Contraries'' (1989)
- ''Portrait of My Father'' (1989) memoirs
- ''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
- ''Hanky-Panky and Other Stories'' (1990)
- ''Practice of Witchcraft Today: An Introduction To Beliefs and Rituals'' (1990)
- ''To Saw the Beloved to Pieces Only When Necessary by Ludwig Zeller'' (1990) translator with others
- ''Words for Witches '' (1990) chapbook
- ''A Devious Dictionary'' (1991)
- ''A Formal Music: Poems in Classical Metres'' (1993)
- ''Higgledy Piggledy'' (1992) stories
- ''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)
- ''Herbert Siebner : A Celebration'' (1993) editor
- ''I Am Me: Rhymes For Small'' (1994)
- ''A Way of Walking : Poems in the Traditional Forms and Metres of Japan'' (1994)
- ''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) translator, editor
- ''Wrestling the Angel: Collected Shorter Poems, 1947-1977'' (1994)
- ''Dark Seasons A Selection of Georg Trakl Poems'' (1994) translator
- ''Samhain'' (1994) poems
- ''The Edge Of Time: Poems And Translations'' (1995)
- ''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)
- ''Rufinus. The Complete Poems'' (1997) translator
- ''Or So I Say : Contentions and Confessions- A Happenstance Book'' (1998)
- ''The Shapes of Our Singing : A Guide to the Meters and Set Forms of Verse from Around the World'' (2002)
- ''Thirteen Irish Writers/On Ireland'', editor
- ''Skelton at 60'' (1986) (Barbara L. Turner, editor)
- ''The Record of A Logophile'' (1990) bibliography
- ''Skelton at Seventy: A Major Retrospective Exhibition'' (1995) bibilography
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