distillate02: Selected Digital Work 2012-2020

The second selection of Michael Ayres' work originally posted online under the moniker "hypergram", distillate02 displays the writer's distinctive style and aesthetic. Calm, elegant poetry, possessing a complex architecture, the writing is often informed with a tenderness and humanity that belie the poems' intensely philosophical nature. At once rich and austere, cool and engaged, passionate and distanced, the collection reflects the wide range of impulses from which it was drawn, making distillate02 a fine, varied introduction to Ayres' work of the past decade.