Mirabile Dictu is from Sasha Johnson Manning's The Manchester Carols, with text by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureatea large scale concert piece which reshapes and modernises the Christmas story to make it relevant to modern society. The piece was written to acknowledge that whilst not everyone embraces the religion behind the Nativity story, everyone can appreciate it as an inspiring, magical tale. The carols are for everyone, believers or not and are a popular Christmas choice for choirs looki...