Michael Ayres was born in Chilwell, Nottingham on November 3 1958, and lived in Dorset, Leicestershire and Cleveland. He gained a degree in English from the University of Hull in 1982, and has lived in Cambridge since 1986. He is the author of two collections prior to Kinetic : Poems 1987–1992 (Odyssey Poets, 1994), and a.m. (Salt Publishing, 2004).

A chapbook of short poems, Only , was published by Oystercatcher Press in 2010.

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