The Long White Thread of Words (Paperback)

Amarjit Chandan

ISBN 10: 0993454747 / ISBN 13: 9780993454745

Published by Smokestack Books, Middlesborough, 2016

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Paperback. 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 lifetimes contribution to literature. His Collected Poems was published in 2014. The Long White Thread of Words is a celebration of John Bergers ninetieth birthday by poets from all over the world. Edited by Amarjit Chandan, Gareth Evans and Yasmin Gunarat nam, it features poets from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, the USA and the UK, including Elaine Feinstein, Nikola Madzirov, Valerio Magrelli, Anne Michaels, Andrew Motion, Daljit Nagra, Sean OBrien, Michael Ondaatje, Ruth Padel, Claudia Rankine and George Szirtes. The Long White Thread of Words is an international celebration of John Berger's ninetieth birthday by poets from all over the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Long White Thread of Words (Paperback)
• Publisher: Smokestack Books, Middlesborough
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993454747
• ISBN 13: 9780993454745
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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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.