He writes about desolate man-made environments
With his attentiveness to resonance and echo
now / listen: / hang on / keep your silence / until the words / ripen / in you
Langley’s poems take their cue from the art conservation technique of ‘raking light’
and the gritty rhythms of the Caribbean everyday… There is wit
Collected Poems by John Berger Burning Eye Books He writes about desolate man-madeNovelist, draughtsman, film maker, essayist and critic John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. For sixty years 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 and G. But although Berger has always written poetry, often smuggling poems inside books like The Seventh Man and