First published 2016
This poetry anthology brings together voices from seventeen nations to celebrate John Berger's ninetieth milestone. Editors Amarjit Chandan, Gareth Evans, and Yasmin Gunaratnam assembled contributors spanning Iraq to Canada, Macedonia to Cuba, Palestine to the UK. The collection features established poets including Michael Ondaatje, Anne Michaels, George Szirtes, Valerio Magrelli, Nikola Madzirov, Andrew Motion, Dalgit Nagra, and Claudia Rankine, alongside voices from Turkey, France, Bulgaria, India, Kenya, Spain, Greece, Nigeria, and China. These poets respond to Berger's decades of cultural criticism and artistic vision. The man they honor transformed how readers see art and society through books like Ways of Seeing and novels including his Booker Prize winner G. His work as novelist, critic, essayist, and filmmaker earned him the Golden PEN award in 2009. The anthology captures the global reach of Berger's influence across different cultures and poetic traditions.
Genres: art, essays, literary-fiction, anthologies, poetry, biography-memoir, criticism, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, literary-homage
Setting: Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Greece, India, Iraq, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
194 pages · Paperback · Dufour Editions