Collected Poems, book of poems by John Berger, first limited edition in 2014.

Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding concerns with art and politics, love and war, history and memory, emigration, immigration and the life of the European peasantry. It includes well-known poems like “The Ladle”, “Village Maternity” and “Death of La Nan M.” as well over twenty previously unpublished poems. From “My Coney” (written in 1952 when Berger was just twenty-six) to “They Are the Last” written in 2008, Berger the poet demonstrates an enduring commitment to the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. These are perfectly framed stilllife images, sensual and plain, delicate sketches of hard lives caught between the provisional quality of language and the permanence of things.