sentences:  Carl Hart's druggy lovestory "The Obvious Game" (2006) is set amongst the straight and gay night life of Manchester in the early 1990s.Wilfred Hopkins, under the pseudonym Billy Hopkins, has written "Our Kid" and other works.Carcanet Press began publishing poetry collections and novels in the early 1970s under the editorship of Michael Schmidt Schmidt was one of the first directors of the Manchester Metropolitan University Writers' School, whose staff currently includes Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy.