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Dannie Abse
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Funland, and other poems |
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71 |
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1973 |
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0195197232 |
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Oxford University Press |
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Daniel Abse, CBE (born 22 September 1923) is a Welsh poet.[1]
Early years
Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse. Abse first studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, and then at Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London.
Career as poet
Although best known as a poet, Abse worked in the medical field, and was a specialist at a chest clinic for over thirty years. He has received numerous literary awards and fellowships for his writing. In 1989, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales.
He has been a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature since 1983.
Abse has lived for several decades in the northwest area of London, mainly near Hampstead where he has considerable ties. For several years he wrote a column for the "Ham & High" (Hampstead and Highgate Express) local newspaper. The articles were subsequently published in book form.
In 2005, his wife Joan Abse was killed in a car accident, while Abse suffered a broken rib. His poetry collection, Running Late, was published in 2006, and The Presence, a memoir of the year after his wife died, was published in 2007; it won the 2008 Wales Book of the Year award.[2] The book was later dramatized for BBC Radio 4. He was awarded the Roland Mathias prize for Running late.
Funland and Other Poems Hutchinson, 1973
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