Chaloner, David, 1944-2010 (poet and designer)
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.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
David Chaloner, 'Hotel Zingo'
Photocopied typescript of the poems in the book, with a title page dated 1979. The poems bear dates between 1972 and 1979. With two sheets of manuscript notes in the hand of John Welch, one apparently not relating to 'Hotel Zingo'.
David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards' and related papers
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