Collected Poems

David Chaloner's landmark "Collected Poems" offers us a spectacular journey into a restless, generous and incisive mind. Pondering on technology, politics, fashion and the emotions, and using typographic and formal experiment, Chaloner tackles the densities of meaning; we journey with him, captivated by his constant and continuing themes, intelligence and vision.

Born in rural Cheshire in 1944 David Chaloner spent his early years dreaming of escape. As the closest city, Manchester provided a cultural and social context for his early writing, when jazz was available in clubs created from empty cotton warehouses and Granada Television struggled with the idea of a new arts programme that included poetry. Apart from 'Little Press' publication, the first published work appeared in the Tandem paperback 'Generation X', a true sociological record of the times, and the Penguin anthology, Children of Albion. In the late sixties he founded ONE, a magazine for new writing, that existed through the transitional years of a move to London in the early seventies. A continuing sense of enquiry and curiosity informs his work and helps in pushing the possibilities of language, music and image in varying and divers ways.