Poetry
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Book 1984
Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Philosophy, Poetry
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, book of essays and poems by John Berger, first edition in 1984. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions Champ Vallon (1991), new traduction for Éditions Hourra (2024).
This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above …
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Pages of the Wound
Book 1994
Art, Books, Drawing, John Christie, Photography, Poetry
Pages of the Wound, book of poems, drawings and photographs 1956-96 by John Berger, first limited edition in 1994, paperback edition in 1996.
Pages of the Wound is the result of a collaboration between John Christie, who printed the original book at Circle Press, and John Berger. This is a collection of his poems, drawings and photographs. It includes 46 poems written between 1956 and 1994. “At Remaurian”, a …
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Collected Poems
Book 2014
Books, Poetry
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includes well-known poems like “The Ladle”, “Village Maternity” and “Death of La Nan M.” as well over twenty previously unpublished poems.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 …
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Books with Liane Birnberg
Book 2006
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Poetry
John Berger contributed to three Liane Birnberg’s books :
Word from a foreign language (2006)
Because wings are made to fly (2011)
Garden to my cheek (2016)
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Flying Skirts
Book 2010
Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Poetry, Quincy, Tributes, Yves Berger
Flying Skirts book by Yves and John Berger as an elegy to Beverly Bancroft (1942-2014), first edition in 2015. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2015).
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Poems on the Theatre
Book 1961
Books, Early Works, Poetry, Politics, Theater, Translations by JB
Poems on the Theatre, poetry by Bertolt Brecht, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1961.
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Return to my Native Land
Book 1969
Books, Colonialism, France, Migrants, Poetry, Politics, Translations by JB
Return to my Native Land, poem by Aimé Césaire, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1969. New edition introduced by Jason Allen-Paisant who revisited their translation.
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Return To My Native Land edited by Jason Allen-Paisant
Mar 21 2024
Return To My Native Land by Aimé Césaire translated by John Berger and Anya Bostock
In 1969, John and Anna translated Return To My Native Land by Aimé Césaire, originally published in french in 1939. Penguin proposed to publish this masterpiece of West-Indian author into its collection Modern Classic and, recommended by Aimé Césaire’s family, they entrusted Jason Allen-Paisant,&n…
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Leyla Josephine: Spoken Word Poetry
Oct 11 2024
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.
More info on her book
2023 Leyla Josephine DEAR JOHN BERGER © I…
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The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025
Apr 28 2025
To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf proposes this second The Shape Of A Pocket event to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments.
«The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.»
John Berger
Sunday May 11th – 4pm – 6:30pm Upstairs …
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JOHN BERGER
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.