Chaloner was born in Mottram St Andrew in Cheshire.
He attended Broken Cross community school in Macclesfield, left at 15, and had a successful career as a designer beginning in 1960.
[2] His early poetry appeared in anthologies and magazines including The English Intelligencer and the 1960s classic underground anthology Children of Albion, edited by Michael Horovitz.
His later more ambitious work was published by leading independent presses in England and America, including Andrew Crozier's Ferry Press and Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop's Burning Deck.
[3] A substantial selection was included in A Various Art (Carcanet, 1987) and more recently in Vanishing Points (Salt, 2004).