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Author: Berger, John

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Published on 10 April 2025 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Canons’ series.

Paperback | 128 pages, B&W images throughout
200 x 130 x 5 | 124g

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger’s archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today: a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action.

Including essays, transcripts, interviews and images, it places itself in the heart of a Derbyshire mining village, with reflections on the everyday life of a typical pit community.