Dannie Abse

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Dannie Abse , CBE (born September 22, 1923 as Daniel Abse in Cardiff , Wales , † September 28, 2014 in Golders Green , London ) was a British author and poet .

Life

Dannie Abse grew up in his Jewish family with his brothers, Leo Abse (1917-2008; lawyer, politician, author) and Wilfried Abse (1915-2005; psychoanalyst), who were about ten years older than him . After graduating from school in his hometown, he studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine , Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London . In 1950 he obtained his doctorate. From 1954 to 1989 he worked in the Breast Clinic of the Central Medical Establishment in London. In 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales.

In 1954 his autobiography Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve was published , in which he processed his childhood experiences. He received the Welsh Arts Council Award and in 1985 the Cholmondeley Award . Abse was a member of the British Poetry Society and has been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 1983 . Abse wrote several volumes of poetry - his first was After Every Green Thing in 1949 - novels, dramas and essays. In the 2012 New Year's list of honors, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of the British Empire.

Abse was married to the art historian Joan Abse, née Mercer (1923-2005), with whom he also has three children. She died in a joint car accident in which Dannie Abse broke her rib.

Dannie Abse was a lifelong fan of Cardiff City football club . He saw the first game in 1934; in many of his works he refers to the soccer game.

Works

Poems

  • After Every Green Thing Hutchinson, 1948
  • Walking Under Water Hutchinson, 1952
  • Fire in Heaven Hutchinson, 1956
  • Mavericks: An Anthology (co-edited with Howard Sergeant) Editions Poetry and Poverty, 1957
  • Tenants of the House: Poems 1951-1956 Hutchinson, 1957
  • Poems, Golders Green Hutchinson, 1962
  • Poems! Dannie Abse: A Selection Vista / Dufour, 1963
  • Modern European Verse (editor) Vista, 1964
  • Medicine on Trial Aldus, 1967
  • Three Questor Plays Scorpion, 1967
  • A Small Desperation Hutchinson, 1968
  • Demo scepter , 1969
  • Selected Poems Hutchinson, 1970
  • Modern Poets in Focus 1 (Editor) Corgi, 1971
  • Modern Poets in Focus 3 (Editor) Corgi, 1971
  • Thirteen Poets (Editor) Poetry Book Society, 1972
  • Funland and Other Poems Hutchinson, 1973
  • Modern Poets in Focus 5 (Editor) Corgi, 1973
  • The Dogs of Pavlov Vallentine, Mitchell, 1973
  • A Poet in the Family Hutchinson, 1974
  • Penguin Modern Poets 26 (Dannie Abse, DJ Enright and Michael Longley) Penguin, 1975
  • Collected Poems 1948-1976 Hutchinson, 1977
  • More Words BBC, 1977
  • My Medical School Robson, 1978
  • Pythagoras Hutchinson, 1979
  • Way Out in the Center Hutchinson, 1981
  • A Strong Dose of Myself Hutchinson, 1983
  • One-legged on ice: poems University of Georgia Press, 1983
  • Doctors and Patients (Editor) Oxford University Press, 1984
  • Ask the Bloody Horse Hutchinson, 1986
  • Journals From the Ant Heap Hutchinson, 1986
  • Voices in the Gallery: Poems and Pictures (co-edited with Joan Abse) Tate Gallery, 1986
  • The Music Lover's Literary Companion (co-edited with Joan Abse) Robson, 1988
  • The Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poetry (Editor) Hutchinson, 1989
  • White Coat, Purple Coat: Collected Poems 1948-1988 Hutchinson, 1989
  • People (contributor) National Language Unit of Wales, 1990
  • Remembrance of Crimes Past: Poems 1986-1989 Hutchinson, 1990
  • The View from Row G: Three Plays Seren, 1990
  • Intermittent Journals Serums, 1994
  • On the Evening Road Hutchinson, 1994
  • Selected Poems Penguin, 1994
  • The Gregory Anthology 1991-1993 (edited with A. Stevenson) Sinclair-Stevenson , 1994
  • Twentieth-Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (Editor) Seren, 1997
  • Welsh Retrospective Serums, 1997
  • Arcadia, One Mile Hutchinson, 1998
  • Be seated, thou: poems 1989-1998 Sheep Meadow Press, 1999
  • Encounters Hearing Eye , 2001
  • Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography Pimlico, 2001
  • New and Collected Poems Hutchinson, 2002
  • The Two Roads Taken: A Prose Miscellany Enitharmon Press, 2003
  • Yellow Bird Sheep Meadow Press, 2004
  • Running Late Hutchinson, 2006
  • 100 Great Poems of Love and Lust: Homage to Eros (Editor) Robson, 2007
  • The Presence Hutchinson, 2007
  • New Selected Poems 1949-2009: Anniversary Collection Hutchinson, 2009
  • Speak, Old Parrot Hutchinson, 2013

Novels

  • Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (Hutchinson, 1954)
  • Some Corner of an English Field (Hutchinson, 1956)
  • O Jones, O Jones (Hutchinson, 1970)
  • There Was A Young Man From Cardiff (Hutchinson, 1991)
  • The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas (Robson, 2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dannie Abse - obituary
  2. ^ Dr Dannie Abse / British Council Literature. (No longer available online.) In: literature.britishcouncil.org. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; accessed on October 13, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / literature.britishcouncil.org
  3. ↑ London gazette December 31, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  4. ^ Doctor of verse. Retrieved on August 19, 2015 (eng).
personal data
SURNAME Abse, Dannie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abse, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2014
Place of death Golders Green , London