Shearsman Gallery
Essays on Michael Ayres

A City of Glistening Organs:
Andrew Duncan on Poems 1987-1992*
Flower, Yarrow & the Starry Thistle:
Andrew Duncan on Michael Ayres and the 'New Pictorial Economy'.
'What We Think, We Touch': Early Thoughts on a.m.
Simon Perril on Michael Ayres' new collection.

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*This review first appeared in 'Angel Exhaust' number 12, 1995, and is reproduced with permission.

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