A Bench For Billie Holiday by James Nash Geomantic Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding

Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding concerns with art and politics

wonders and alarms - of the early 21st century

Such a poem is there for all times

Piotr Sommer

A Bench For Billie Holiday by James Nash Geomantic Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstandingIn A Bench for Billie Holiday, James Nash tenderly retraces seventy years of life through seventy new sonnets. Whether lightly sketching moments of truth or revisiting his younger self with the benefit of insight and experience, he imbues each fourteen line fragment with wit, wisdom and wonder. Looking back from various locations, each ideal for serious thought (whether the train, a bike or a sea facing bench), he pieces together autobiographical