{"title":"Dannie Abse","description":"Poet Dannie Abse was born on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff to Jewish parents. He studied Medicine in Wales and at King's College, London, qualifying as a doctor in 1950. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. He was given a Cholmondeley Award in 1985.\n\nHis poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1970), winner of an Arts Council of Wales Literature Award; \u003cem\u003ePythagoras\u003c\/em\u003e (1979); \u003cem\u003eWay Out in the Centre\u003c\/em\u003e (1981); \u003cem\u003eAsk the Bloody Horse\u003c\/em\u003e (1986); and \u003cem\u003eWhite Coat, Purple Coat: Collected Poems 1948-1988\u003c\/em\u003e (1989). He has also published fiction, including \u003cem\u003eAsh on a Young Man's Sleeve\u003c\/em\u003e (1954) and \u003cem\u003eO. Jones, O. Jones\u003c\/em\u003e (1970), as well as non-fiction and plays, and he has edited many poetry anthologies. \u003cem\u003eGoodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) includes and updates his first volume of autobiography, \u003cem\u003eA Poet in the Family\u003c\/em\u003e (1974). His most recent novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr Simmonds \u0026amp; Dr Glas\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), is set in 1950s London. \u003cem\u003eThe Two Roads Taken: A Prose Miscellany\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2003. In 2009, he won the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.\n\nDannie Abse reads 'Return to Cardiff' from [url=http:\/\/www.inpressbooks.co.uk\/welsh_retrospective_cary_archard_i020385.aspx]Welsh Retrospective[\/url] (Seren):\n\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wV504WuQ8O4[\/youtube]\n","products":[{"product_id":"welsh-retrospective","title":"Welsh Retrospective","description":"\u003ci\u003eWelsh Retrospective\u003c\/i\u003e is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain's most popular poets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDannie Abse's Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular, have haunted his imagination. In this revealing new book he writes movingly about the Cardiff of his childhood, home of his beloved Bluebirds football team, and also about the small village of Ogmore-by-Sea, location of early holidays and for many years his home in Wales. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected from the whole of Dannie Abse's writing career, the book includes such well known and well-loved poems as 'Return to Cardiff' and 'In the Theatre' alongside many previously uncollected poems. Abse's range is remarkable. Vivid character portraits of Aunt Alice and Cousin Sidney sit next to tributes to poet predecessors, Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins. Some poems draw on Jewish writings, others on Welsh language literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWelsh Retrospective\u003c\/i\u003e gives fascinating insights into Dannie Abse's Wales and his versatility as a poet. His Wales is anything but parochial, his poems effortlessly universal. Every reader will be struck by a poet who has a gift for accepting mortality with wise optimism. The book is edited by Cary Archard who provides an introduction and notes on the poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDannie Abse\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1923) was born in Cardiff and studied Medicine at Cardiff, King's College and Westminster Hospital. A poet, novelist, playwright, he has also published diaries and autobiography. He has published eleven volumes of poetry including a \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seren","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040998964,"sku":"9781854114860","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_1d4a7bd2-9157-4b37-bdad-6943512d763d.jpeg?v=1752237373"},{"product_id":"there-was-a-young-man-from-cardiff","title":"There was a Young Man from Cardiff","description":"Poet, novelist, playwright, diaryist, anthologist and broadcaster, Dannie Abse has contributed hugely to literature in Britain. In \u003ci\u003eThere was a Young Man from Cardiff\u003c\/i\u003e he presents a series of deceptions - or are they? - which ask about the nature of 'truth' and 'reality'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacters and events materialise and change as though a mist swirls around them: twins appear and disappear in 'Madagascar'; 'The Marvellous Girl' echoes the 'marvellous boy' of Chatterton, whose writing fooled the literary world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBehind these fictions is the young Dannie, newly qualified doctor struggling to grasp the post-war world of adults, relationships, family and illness. His progress towards a better understanding of life is mirrored by his development as a writer. Charming, quirky, Dannie Abse's fiction is a world in which everyday surfaces are underlain by the strange, scarcely understood currents of human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDannie Abse\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1923) was born in Cardiff and studied Medicine at Cardiff, King's College and Westminster Hospital. A poet, novelist, playwright, he has also published diaries and autobiography. 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