Manchester Met is celebrating National Poetry Day (October 2) with an exclusive reading by award-winning poet and professor Andrew McMillan of his poem Today, exploring the perpetual motion of cities.
Filmed in the University’s Manchester Poetry Library, the reading sees Prof McMillan exploring the hustle and bustle of city life through a poem he wrote for his award-winning debut collection physical.
A nod to National Poetry Day’s 2025 theme of ‘PLAY’, Today addresses the motion of cityscapes, from the ‘ice cream sellers huddled around the docks’ to the streets that are ‘more people than pavement’.