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Dannie Abse
Dannie and Joan Abse had been married for more than fifty years when she was killed in a car crash in 2005. After her death he wrote his extraordinary memoir…
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Dannie Abse, whose career as a poet spans sixty years, has made a huge contribution to the literature and literary life of Wales and to poetry and prose in the…
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His distinction lies in his imaginative and feeling responses to a variety of different worlds - work as a doctor, the experience of life in Wales and North London, the…
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In Speak, Old Parrot he returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity, Jewish folk tradition and the passing of time.
A selection of poems by the author of The Presence .
Loss, grief and love are the themes of this memoir from Dannie Abse, one of Britain’s distinguished poets. It is both a record of grief due to the death of…
Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain’s most popular poets. Dannie Abse’s Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings…
Dannie Abse’s rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable…
Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the 30s, this has become a classic. In this autobiographical novel, Abse interweaves public…
Abse is one of Britain’s leading and best-loved literary figures. These plays House of Cowards, The Dogs of Pavlov, and Pythagoras (Smith) were written in reaction to the Holocaust. House…
This pack of notecards feature Sue Shields' iconic illustration of 'Return to Cardiff' by Dannie Abse. The full poem is printed on the inside, with the poet's biography and history…
This poetry anthology offers a unique insight into the real experiences of the people at the heart of the NHS - from the student nurse at the start of his…
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