A Jar of Wild Flowers

Name: A Jar of Wild Flowers
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SKU: 9781350429253
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Essays in Celebration of John Berger

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A Jar of Wild Flowers is a heartfelt collection of essays celebrating the profound impact of John Berger’s work. Featuring contributions from thirty-seven friends, collaborators, and admirers—including Ali Smith and Julie Christie—the book explores Berger’s poetic humanism and his ability to connect diverse cultures, histories, and experiences. These essays challenge readers to move beyond mere sympathy toward a deeper generosity, reflecting on themes of belonging and community that are central to Berger’s enduring legacy.
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This collection will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, fans of John Berger’s diverse works, and those who value thoughtful explorations of humanism, community, and social history. Ideal for lovers of essay collections and literary celebrations.

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John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. These essays tell us how he succeeded in that task.
— Arundhati Roy

In this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic collaborators, and followers come together to form the first truly international and cross-cultural celebration of his interventions.

Berger has, for decades, through his poetic humanism, brought together geographically, historically, and socially disparate subjects. His work continues to throw out lifelines across genres, times, and types of experience, opening up radical questions about the meaning of belonging and of community. In keeping with this spirit, and in celebration of Berger, the short essays in A Jar of Wild Flowers challenge us all to take the brave step from limited sympathy to extended generosity.

With contributions from Ali Smith, Julie Christie, Sally Potter, Ram Rahman, Jean Mohr, Nick Thorpe, Hsiao-Hung Pai, and many others.

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Praised as a lively and heartfelt tribute, A Jar of Wild Flowers is celebrated by critics and authors alike. Publishers Weekly calls it a “lively collection of celebration and gratitude.” Anne Michaels commends it as an “outstanding celebration” of Berger’s compassion and generosity. Michael Ondaatje highlights how the essays reveal the “crucial and often unspoken history of our times,” while Suad Amiry describes the collection as “expansive, intimate, sensuous, poetic, and political.” Jarvis Cocker recognises Berger as one of the authors who can truly change your perspective on the world.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350429253

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: Halftones, black and white 14

Contributors:

Edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam
With Amarjit Chandan
Foreword by Jean Mohr
Afterword by Sally Potter

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 624g

Pages: 416

Collections

Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction

About the Author

Yasmin Gunaratnam teaches in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her latest book is Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders, Care (2013).