Collected PoemsNovelist, 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

I can understand her only too well but get angry with her too

he became editor of an academic journal

They want to recreate a sense of home

John Barnie was born and raised in Abergavenny

The poets in the issue are the late Mohammad al-Maghut

The arguments will be polemical

1927 – 11 February 2008

Wall's fifty book for Salmon Poetry

between two apple trees

Brendan Foster

Ahmed Alaidy Excerpt from Being Abbas el Abd

every half century