Poetry. INTIMATE CHRONICLES is Christopher Middleton's first collection of poems since The Balcony Tree (1992), which roused the British critic T.J.C. Harris to write, "Middleton is one of the most extraordinary and extraordinarily neglected English poets." INTIMATE CHRONICLES, a "late work" by traditional measure, offers some of the poet's freshest and strangest work; indeed, the poems constantly outwit and outplay traditional measures. Writing in a way "always open to the unexpected...his poetry has a genuinely improvised quality that does not give the impression of being a method. His experiments are invariably interesting to read—that is to say, they are more than experiments."

Author City: Austin, TX USA

Born in Cornwall in 1926, Christopher Middleton studied at Merton College, Oxford, and taught German at Kings College, London. Since 1965 he has taught at the University of Texas, Austin.