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Ian Robinson (July 1, 1934 – April 20, 2004) was an English writer and artist and editor of Oasis Books. ==Biography== Ian Norman Baker Robinson was born in 1934 in Osterley, Middlesex. His father was a civil servant and his maternal grandfather was the Music Hall artist Anchor Baker. His secondary schooling was at St Paul’s School in London where he secretly started writing poetry〔Görtschacher, Wolfgang: ''Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene'', Salzburg, Austria, 2000, p.158; this is at the start of his interview with Ian Robinson, titled "The Epitome of Regularity"〕 and eventually helped revive the magazine ''The Debator'', originally founded by G.K.Chesterton and E.C.Bentley. Following national service in the RAF, when he was based in Germany and learned Russian, he studied English at Oriel College, Oxford. He then taught in a comprehensive school for three years before working for the National Trade Press as a technical reporter and sub-editor. It was during this period that he developed an interest in typography, lay-out and design. In 1965 he joined the staff of what was then Kingston Art College, where he stayed working in various capacities through its several transformations until he took early retirement in 1991. After helping with the production of a student magazine there, he founded the literary magazine ''Oasis'' in 1969 and the following year produced the first in the Oasis Books series. Between 1972-82 he was a member of the Poetry Society, where he chaired the Publications Committee and for two years was Deputy Chairman following the dispute which led to the resignation of the radical group on its Governing Council.〔Barry, Peter: ''Poetry Wars - British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court'', Cambridge, 2006; limited preview at ()〕 Although he sympathised with their outlook (and continued to publish some of them in ''Oasis''), he chose to remain there for the time being. Stimulated by working in an art college, Robinson was developing his own graphic work, which he began exhibiting during the 1970s. It also figured prominently in the various magazines in which he published or with which he was connected, as often as not ‘because I had difficulty finding suitable material from elsewhere without having to pay for it’.〔Görtschacher, Wolfgang: ''Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene'', Salzburg, Austria, 2000, p.191〕 A collection of some hundred of his drawings, “The Glacier in the Cupboard”, was published in 1995, followed by two minor collections. In his introduction to “The Glacier in the Cupboard”, Robert Vas Dias commented on the oneiric quality of his drawings at the same time as their being ‘exemplifications of ideas of order.’ After his retirement Robinson continued to publish and devoted more time to his writing and graphic work. He died unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism just short of his seventieth birthday. In 1959 he had married Adelheid (Heidi) Armbrüster, of Romanian German extraction, by whom he had a son (Max, 1963) and a daughter (Ira, 1967). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Robinson (publisher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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