Born to Cyril Skelton and Eliza Roberts Skelton in Easington, East Yorkshire, England, Robin Skelton is one of many expatriate writers adopted by Canada. Skelton has had a cosmopolitan career both in and out of the arts. As code and cyphers clerk for the RAF, he was posted to New Delhi in 1945 and visited Ceylon the next year for a course in educational and vocational training. When he returned to New Delhi in 1947, he wrote scripts and did broadcasts for the Western Music Division of All India Radio. He was demobilized following his return to England and entered Leeds University in late 1947 as a student of English language and literature. At that time he made the acquaintance of Geoffrey Keynes. In 1949 Skelton became the editor of the Gryphon. He published articles, poems, stories, and drawings in university magazines, organized an exhibition on twentieth-century book design for the Brotherton...