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Janet Frame is one of New Zealand\u2019s greatest writers. Equally famous for her memoirs, poetry and fiction the Manchester Review is delighted to publish her characteristically sidelong, subversive account of her father\u2019s return from what \u2018used to be called the \u2018Great\u2019 war\u2019. At a time when the centenary of World War I looms large on the UK\u2019s cultural horizon, Frame’s short, fantastical account resists the piety and national feelings stoked up by some more recent commemorations.<\/p>\n

In an extract from his new novel Worthless Men,<\/em> Andrew Cowan likewise approaches this fraught subject by focussing on local, family repercussions, as does Tom French\u2019s meditation on \u2018Fred Bennett\u2019s Cigarettes\u2019, while Michael Symmons Roberts pictures another aftermath of war when he presents a lost pilot in the sequence \u2018Wounds\u2019 from his terrific forthcoming collection, Drysalter<\/em>. Symmons Roberts\u2019 apocalyptic imagination is close kin too to the new poems by Gwyneth Lewis and Sebastian Agudelo in this issue.<\/p>\n

Janet Frame is joined in this issue by another New Zealander, long resident in the UK, Kirsty Gunn, whose devastating story \u2018Ghost\u2019 acts as a counterpart to a story she published in MR 4. Other returning writers, Tom French and James Robison, also revisit themes familiar to their readers. Robison\u2019s ‘Watergate’ deals with a story of power and illusions which also featured in the work of a recent visitor to Manchester AM Homes whose discussion of her new novel with our new Professor, Jeanette Winterson, may be accessed here.<\/p>\n

These writers are joined by Rachel Cusk, returning in \u2018Exposure\u2019 to the subject of marriage and motherhood she controversially and originally treated in last year\u2019s memoir Aftermath<\/em>, Maurice Riordan whose tender, filial poems re-imagine the mother\u2019s presence in the son\u2019s life, and work by very promising younger writers, the poets Frances Leviston, Sean Hewitt and Luke Yates and fiction writers Nick Holdstock and Claire Powell.<\/p>\n

As we move to this newly designed site, we are keen to maintain the onscreen integrity of the poems and prose we publish, but we also want to increase access to that material, so we have introduced a more interactive approach to the work\u2019s presentation: we hope you enjoy the work in this issue and that you will use these links to help us to get the work out to fellow readers as well as returning to our new site for news of events, podcasts and readings, and reviews of new work.<\/p>\n

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