Creator Bio
Dannie Abse
1923–2014
With dual careers in writing and medicine, Dannie Abse was a Welsh physician, poet, playwright, and novelist who lived in London. His poetry, addressing identity and existence as well as daily life, has been collected in over a dozen volumes. In addition, Abse published more than ten plays, several novels, and essays and stories about medicine. Among other honors, he received the Charles Henry Foyle Award, the Jewish Chronicle Book Award, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Wilfred Owen poetry award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve
When breakfast was over, I had to go to the synagogue, rain or shine, for it was Saturday morning. I used to sit next to Bernard and Simon. We would wear our skull caps and whisper to each other…
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Uncle Isidore
When I observe a toothless ex-violinist,
with more hair than face, sprawled like Karl Marx
on a park seat or slumped, dead or asleep,
in the central heat of a public library
I think of Uncle Isidore…