DAVID KINLOCH was born in Glasgow in 1959. A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he is currently Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. His first collection of poems was entitled Paris-Forfar, of which Edwin Morgan said in the Scotsman: 'The book is notable for three things: successes in the "impossible" genre of the prose-poem, ... a trio of lively flytings... and a series of moving elegies for a gay lover dead from AIDS.'

He has also recently received a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award.