The Manchester Review is rooted in the city from which it takes its name …
Itinerary
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You don’t really stay here; a hotel is a place at which you arrive and from which you depart.
The West Stand
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The Fitzsimonses’ house, about the size of an English manor, was on the middle stretch of Avoca Avenue …
Three Poems
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They told you stand barefoot, the cool grass
spreading for the soles of your feet; weight
Two Poems
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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
The Children’s Story
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The Tree reading in the street: ‘The Frome children, who all even the boys bore the names of flowers, were making a trifle …
Two Poems
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Those spacious months when we lived
continents apart, pens were back in,
our letters made days more bearable.
A Season in Paradise
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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.
The Traffic Noir
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The films were usually shown, where I grew up, in school libraries during the normal run of the school day …