The Long White Thread of Words

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.