Leyla Josphine published a book of poetry In Public / In Private (Burning Eye Books, 2022, sold out) including the poem “Dear John Berger” where she speaks to John Berger especially about what he wrote in Ways Of Seeing (1972). She won a poem performance award reading this poem, Forward Prize for the Best Single Poem – Performed 2024.
2023 Leyla Josephine DEAR JOHN BERGER © I Am Loud Productions
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.