Robert Dellar
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Robert Dellar (16 December 1964 – 17 December 2016)[1] was a British activist, musician and poet who was one of the founders of the Mad Pride movement. [2][3][4]
Dellar grew up in Garston, Hertfordshire[5], attending Watford Grammar School for Boys.[6].
In the mid 1980s Dellar moved to Brighton to study at Sussex University, also publishing the fanzine Straight Up.[7] He then moved to London, where he would live for the rest of his life.[1] He founded Spare Change Books, an independent publisher, in 1995.
Dellar worked for the mental health charity Mind, initially at Hackney & City Mind in the early 1990s. He also founded Hackney Patients Council in 1994.[8] He was appointed as a development worker at Southwark Mind in 1997.[2]
Dellar died of a pulmonary embolism one day after his fifty-second birthday, with a post mortem revealing he also had pancreatic cancer.[9][2] He wrote several books, and a biography was published posthumously.[10]
Publications
- Gobbing, Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language!: An Anthology of Punk Short Stories (editor) Spare Change Books (1998) ISBN 0952574454
- Seaton Point Robert Dellar and others, Spare Change Books (1998) ISBN 0952574411
- Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture (Edited by Robert Dellar with Ted Curtis and Esther Leslie), Spare Change Books (2003) ISBN 095257442X
- Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion Unkant Publishers (2014) ISBN 0992650909
- Kiss Of Life: Remembering Robert Dellar (ed. Lawrence Burton) Ce Acatl Publishing (2017)
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