Peter Sansom

Two Poems

It’s not that he’s too old, he just doesn’t want it,
the practice being enough and sometimes
making the cut. Top half of the leader-board

Janet Wolff

Colour (mainly blue)

My conversion to blue occurred in May 2005 …

Marli Roode

A Season in Paradise

I find him in Empangeni. My father lies on his back at the edge of the sugar-cane valley, one arm under his head, the other flung out, fingers plaiting scrub and yellow weed flowers.

Kathryn Simmonds

Two Poems

Feed it first
with mustard spoons,

Alys Conran

The Room

There is only the room.

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John McAuliffe

President Higgins on Manchester’s Irish Connection

In November 2012, President Michael D Higgins visited the Northwest of England and made a number of speeches, including this address at the University of Manchester, which we are delighted to publish for the first time.

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The Manchester Review

Jose James: Band on the Wall, Manchester

by Ian Pople

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John McAuliffe

MR10 Editorial

The Manchester Review is rooted in the city from which it takes its name …

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Vincenz Serrano

Itinerary

You don’t really stay here; a hotel is a place at which you arrive and from which you depart.

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