The Manchester Review

Poetry, fiction, reviews, public debate, visual art and video, all online from the Centre for New Writing.

Our exciting journal appears each spring and autumn, edited by John McAuliffe and Chad Campbell. It combines the best new writing from around the UK and the world, with reviews and discussions involving our students.

Issue 25

Welcome to Issue 25 of The Manchester Review. This is an outstanding issue and we're happy to be featuring new poetry from Peter Sansom, Sarah Corbett, Joanna Guthrie, and Greta Stoddart, alongside new fiction by Mary O'Donnell, Kavan Stafford, Nicholas Murgatroyd, and Henry Tydeman. The images from the issue are taken from the Whitworth's major retrospective of Althea McNish work, which is currently on display at the gallery.

• Read issue 25 of The Manchester Review

Special issue: Poems in a pandemic

Students at The Centre of New Writing have responded to the global pandemic in their poetry, using their words to reflect the world in which we live and how their lives and broader society has been impacted by lockdown, by politics and by the way the human race has responded to this once-in-a-century event.

• Read Poems in a Pandemic in The Manchester Review