Knit one, purl one.
On Sunday 22nd November the Knitted Poem arrives in Manchester, and with it comes
a rare opportunity to see inside Manchester's Edwardian water palace - Victoria Baths.
The Poetry Society’s giant centenary poem is a 13 by 9 metre, hand-knitted version of Dylan Thomas’s ‘In my Craft or Sullen Art’. It contains more than 1200 squares, and is the work of more than one thousand knitters and crotcheters worldwide.
Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road, M13, are, arguably, Britain's best-loved restoration project - a miracle of stained glass, emerald tiling and carved wood.
The knitted poem will be on display in the former Ladies Pool, where you can look down from the fabulous balconies, or if you prefer you can get up close, to see this mammoth wooly marvel.
There is disabled access, and the event is free.
