Dates

• Existence: 1944 - 2010

Biography

The poet and designer David Chaloner was born in Cheshire in 1944, was educated in Macclesfield, and left school at sixteen to work in a textile factory, where his career in design began. In 1973 he moved to London, where he ran a design business between 1980 and 1995, later opening an second office in Amsterdam. He was a design ambassador for the British Council, and retail director of Conran and Partners from 2004 until 2006. Chaloner's first book of poetry, 'Dark Pages, Slow Turn, Brief Salves', was published by Andrew Crozier's Ferry Press in 1969. Other books included 'Year of Meteors' (1972), 'Chocolate Sauce' (1973), 'Projections' (1977), 'Today Backwards' (1977), 'Fading into Brilliance' (1978), 'Hotel Zingo' (1981), 'Trans' (1989), 'Where Once Was' (1989), 'Edge' (1993), 'Delight's Wreckage' (2001), 'Villa of Mysteries' (2001), and a substantial 'Collected Poems' with Salt Publishing in 2005. David Chaloner died in 2010.

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