MA in Publishing
This here, our beloved city, Manchester, always been a big-hearted place
with so many languages living, growing in numbers, it is everyone’s place
Honey like sounds people speak, their languages taking us to their worlds
know it or not, hearts delight hearing, how beautiful is this our own place
Where did the languages come from, how, with whom, what, when, why
the stories, the people, cultures, they make us here into an awesome place
How do languages travel, keep on moving, even when settled, they evolve
in books, hearts, minds, memories, always moving, new yet a familiar place
Through wars, migration, expatriation, holidays, a year or more out, away
humans take this lightest of all luggage, a language to find their new place
Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, Bengali, Polish, Somali, Italian, the list is flourishing
Manchester, the city of languages, nearly 200 spoken here, a right on place
Our international languages symphony, our anthem Anjum plays non-stop
wherever you go, there are multilingual champions, in this, a very top place
This here, our beloved city, Manchester, always been a big-hearted place
with so many languages living, growing in numbers, it is everyone’s place