Common Cause by Francis Combes the song weigher he has been translated into

he has been translated into many languages

These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity

‘The greatest poet of the twentieth century

and brings them out into the night to face each other - and their last chance to connect

Published by Dedalus Press on 10

Common Cause by Francis Combes the song weigher he has been translated intoPoetry on the history of utopia, revolution and hope, introduced by Booker Prize winning author John Berger. "Communism," wrote Brecht, "is the simple idea so hard to achieve." Common Cause tells the hard story of this simple idea, from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Common Cause is a history of the defeated, a book about enthusiasm and illusion, heroes and martyrs, saints and sinners. It is an epic, a