Dannie Abse was born in 1923 and was brought up in Cardiff but has lived mostly in London. Abse is a successful poet, editor, memoirist, essayist, playwright and novelist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Welsh Academy of Letters, Honoury Fellow at the University of Wales College of Medicine and recipient of the Cholmondeley Award. Abse is one Britain's leading and most popular poets; he draws his welsh roots and Jewish inheritance into his poems as well as combining his careers of being an author and a doctor into his poetry and his life being a husband, brother and father. This has given him a unique identity in British poetry.
Also, the death of Abse's wife appears to be a theme in some of his poems.
Abse on learning to appreciate poetry click here
Abse on being a poet and medical student click here
Abse on writing medically themed poetry click here
Good homework. Very useful. Don't forget to keep up with your notes on all the Larkin poems we have done so far and post the annotated Abse poem you have done
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