List Of Writers

ABSE, DANNIE

Green Hollows, Craig–yr–Eos Road, Ogmore-by-Sea, Bridgend CF32 0PG. Tel: (01656) 880691.

Poet, novelist and dramatist. Born Cardiff where he went to school. Had his first book published while still a medical student. 1973-74 was Writer-in-Residence, Princeton University USA. Frequent contributor to BBC. President of the Poetry Society 1979-1992. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Welsh Academy. Hon. D. Litt. (Wales) 1989. Dannie won the Roland Mathias Prize in 2007. Running Late (Hutchinson, 2006), was on the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Long List.

The Presence (Hutchinson, 2007) is on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List. Click here for more information.

Selected Publications:
Dannie Abse (Studio Vista, 1963)
Three Questor Plays (Scorpian Press, 1967)
Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve (Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 1971)
Funland and Other Poems (Hutchinson, 1973)
Way Out in the Centre (Hutchinson, 1981)
The View from Row G: Three Plays (Seren, 1990)
There Was a Young Man From Cardiff (Hutchinson, 1991)
White Coat, Purple Coat - Collected Poems 1948-1988 (Persea, 1991)
On the Evening Road (Hutchinson, 1994)
Intermittent Journals (Seren, 1994)
Welsh Retrospective (Seren, 1997)
Be Seated Thou (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2000)
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas (Robson Books Ltd, 2002)
The Two Roads Taken (Enitharmon Press, 2002)
Dannie Abse: New & Collected Poems (Hutchinson, 2003)
Running Late (Hutchinson, 2006)
The Presence (Hutchinson, 2007)

Contributed to:
Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (editor) (Seren, 1997)
Homage to Eros: 100 Great Poems of Love and Lust (editor) (Robson Books, 2003)



The Presence (Hutchinson, 2007)

Loss, grief and love are the themes of this remarkable memoir from one of Britain’s most distinguished poets.

Some months after Dannie Abse’s wife Joan died in a car accident in June 2005, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of marriage which lasted more than fifty years. It is an extraordinary document, painful but celebratory; funny as well as sad, bursting with joy as well as sorrow and full of a deep understanding of what it means to be human.

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The portrait of Dannie featured here is by painter Lorraine Bewsey. It forms part of a twenty-piece collection entitled Portraits of Welsh Writers. Lorraine can be contacted at lorraine@lorrainesartstudio.co.uk 

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own poetry and prose
2. A Strong Dose of Myself - an autobiographical entertainment first presented at The Edinburgh Festival

AGE RANGE: 16-18 and adults.
AVAILABILITY: Not December and January. Requires as much notice as possible.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: A good light to read by; a small table to rest books on.