Adding Colours to the Chameleon

Peter J. King was born in 1956 in Boston, Lincolnshire. His first collection of poems (A Secret Tear) was published in 1976, followed by Déjà Vú and insofaras. He ran a small press (tapocketa press) from the National Poetry Society, and co-founded with Alaric Sumner a quarterly poetry magazine, words worth.

In 1980 he started on an academic career in philosophy, and is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is the author of One Hundred Philosophers, which has been translated into over twenty languages, and co-author of The Philosophy Book. Since returning to poetry in 2013 he has been published in magazines such as Acumen, Tears in the Fence, Three Drops in the Cauldron, Dream Catcher, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Osiris, streetcake, Lighthouse, and New Walk. He also translates poetry from modern Greek (with Andrea Christofidou) and from modern German.

Adding Colours to the Chameleon is a selection of poetry and prose written over a period of roughly forty years, from 1975 to 2015.