The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for John Berger - Softcover

Amarjit Chandan; Yasmin Gunaratnam; Gareth Evans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993454747 ISBN 13: 9780993454745

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2016

Synopsis

The Long White Thread of Words is an international celebration of John Berger s ninetieth birthday by poets from all over the world.

Edited by Amarjit Chandan, Gareth Evans and Yasmin Gunaratnam, it features poets from Iraq, Macedonia, Italy, Turkey, France, Bulgaria, India, Canada, Kenya, Spain, Greece, Nigeria, China, Cuba, Palestine, the US and the UK, including Michael Ondaatje, Elaine Feinstein, Sean O Brien, Anne Michaels, George Szirtes, Valerio Magrelli, Nikola Madzirov, Andrew Motion, Dalgit Nagra and Claudia Rankine.

Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. Since the 1950s he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it in books like Ways of Seeing, Permanent Red, To the Wedding, A Painter of Our Time, Pig Earth, Once in Europa, Lilac and Flag, A Seventh Man, Pages of the Wound and From A to X. In 1972 he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize for his novel G. In 2009 he was awarded the Golden PEN award by London PEN for a lifetime s contribution to literature. His Collected Poems were published in 2014.

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About the Author

Amarjit Chandan has edited and translated many writers into Punjabi, including Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet, Vallejo, Cardenal and John Berger. His most recent book of poems is Sonata for Four Hands, with a preface by Berger. Gareth Evans is the Film Curator of London s Whitechapel Gallery. He conceived and curated the six week John Berger season across London in 2005.Yasmin Gunaratnam teaches Sociology at Goldsmiths College. Her most recent book is Death and the Migrant: Bodies, borders, care.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993454747
• ISBN 13: 9780993454745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Amarjit Chandan, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gareth Evans