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Favourite Love Poems

Product Description: Love and poetry just naturally go togetherâand this collection celebrates romance in its many facets, from first blush to the comedy of lust to profound loss. It includes ancient favorites like the Song of Solomon; recent masterpieces by the Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion; and classics from WH Auden, Carol Ann Duffy, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Jacques PrÃ©vert...read more

By Dannie Abse

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9781849942799 | B T Batsford Ltd, February 3, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Love and poetry just naturally go togetherâand this collection celebrates romance in its many facets, from first blush to the comedy of lust to profound loss.

Speak, Old Parrot

Product Description: 2013 marks Dannie Abse's 90th birthday. In his lifetime he has published an astonishing array of work including poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, and autobiography, but it is as a poet that he is best known and loved. In Speak, Old Parrot he returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity, Jewish folk tradition, and the passing of time...read more

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9780091944643 | Random House Uk Ltd, April 1, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 2013 marks Dannie Abse's 90th birthday.

New Selected Poems

Product Description: A great Welsh-English poet at the height of his powers

By Dannie Abse

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9781937679071 | Sheep Meadow Pr, November 13, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A great Welsh-English poet at the height of his powers

Goodbye Twentieth Century

Product Description: Drawing upon his Welsh and Jewish heritage, Dannie Abse presentsÂ a rich autobiography that chronicles his life as both a doctor and an author.Â Humorous and poignant, thisÂ new editionÂ not onlyÂ includes the acclaimed first volume A Poet in the Family, but also discusses the changes in the political and literary landscape over the last century...read more

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9781908069726, titled "Goodbye, Twentieth Century" | Reprint edition (Parthian Books, April 1, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Drawing upon his Welsh and Jewish heritage, Dannie Abse presentsÂ a rich autobiography that chronicles his life as both a doctor and an author.

In Extra Time

By Dannie Abse

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9781907587191 | Lea edition (Gardners Books, March 3, 2012), cover price $91.65

Ode to Love: 100 Poems of Love & Lust

Product Description: From Ovid to Anne Bradstreet, Auden to Seamus Heaneyâ100 memorable poems to say I love youÂ FromÂ The Bible'sÂ "The Song of Solomon" to Li Po's "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter," to recent masterpieces by the Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, each poem is preceded by pithy, introductory biographical notes...read more

By Dannie Abse (compiler)

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9781907554384 | Reprint edition (Trafalgar Square, January 1, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From Ovid to Anne Bradstreet, Auden to Seamus Heaneyâ100 memorable poems to say I love youÂ FromÂ The Bible'sÂ "The Song of Solomon" to Li Po's "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter," to recent masterpieces by the Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, each poem is preceded by pithy, introductory biographical notes.

100 Great Poems of Love & Lust: Homage to Eros

Presents a selection of 100 poems that say 'I love you', from the Song of Solomon, Catullus and Ovid, to masterpieces by the Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, each preceded by introductory biographical notes.

By Dannie Abse (editor)

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9781861059871 | Trafalgar Square, January 1, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents a selection of 100 poems that say 'I love you', from the Song of Solomon, Catullus and Ovid, to masterpieces by the Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, each preceded by introductory biographical notes.

Ash On A Young Mans Sleeve

Product Description: Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backdrop of the times: unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War...read more

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9781905762255, titled "Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve" | Parthian Books, July 15, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic.

9781905762002, titled "Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve" | Parthian Books, April 15, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism and honesty as well as its accurate evocation of the 30s.

9780853031192 | Vallentine Mitchell, January 1, 1971, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic.

The Presence

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. This book is a memoir from one of Britain's most distinguished poets. It deals with loss, grief and love.

By Dannie Abse

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9780091796334 | Gardners Books, July 5, 2007, cover price $27.70 | About this edition: 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.

Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry

Product Description: This definitive collection displays the beauty and elegance of the best in Welsh poetry from the 20th century. Chosen by one of Walesâs most celebrated contemporary poets, this compilation spans the breadth of Welsh life, including the poetry of Georgian influenced W...read more

By Dannie Abse (editor)

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9781854111821 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Wales has provided Britain with some of the finest poetry of the century, from the modernism of David Jones, the powerful lyrics of Dylan Thomas and the understatement of R.

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9781854113566 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, September 21, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This definitive collection displays the beauty and elegance of the best in Welsh poetry from the 20th century.

9781854111838 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, January 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This definitive collection displays the beauty and elegance of the best in Welsh poetry from the 20th century.

Homage To Eros: 100 Great Poems To Love And Lust

Product Description: What rich pickings there are for an anthologist of love poemsÂhaunting expressions of enduring love or of love lost, not to mention wonderful confessions, often robustly comical, of pure lust. Dannie Abse, one of Britainâs foremost poets, has selectedÂ 100 poems, ranging from the verse of Catullus and Ovid to recent masterworks by Irish Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney and acclaimed American poet Robert Lowell...read more

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9781861057648 | Trafalgar Square, January 30, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: What rich pickings there are for an anthologist of love poemsÂhaunting expressions of enduring love or of love lost, not to mention wonderful confessions, often robustly comical, of pure lust.

The Yellow Bird

By Dannie Abse

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9781931357241 | Sheep Meadow Pr, October 13, 2004, cover price $13.95

The Two Roads Taken: A Prose Miscellany

Product Description: Dannie Abseâs prose anthology draws together essays and autobiographical material spanning a lifetime of writing and practising medicine. We are treated to amusing anecdotes of Abseâs time as a trainee-doctor in wartime Britain, as well as more serious pieces on the Holocaust, Jewishness and the impact literature has had on his medical work...read more

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9781900564687 | Enitharmon Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dannie Abseâs prose anthology draws together essays and autobiographical material spanning a lifetime of writing and practising medicine.

The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas

Product Description: Inspired by the disturbing 1905 Swedish classic, Dr. Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg, a novel that explores the possibility of pure moral murder, and with more than a nod to Robert Louis Stevensonâs The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr...read more

By Dannie Abse

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9780786712014 | Carroll & Graf Pub, April 7, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Inspired by the disturbing 1905 Swedish classic, Dr.

Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve: A Novel of the 1930's

Product Description: Sharp, sad and romantic, Dannie Abse's reminisces tell of the private fortunes of a Jewish family in Cardiff amid the troubled tapestry of the times. Abse's famous autobiographical novel captures the enchantment of childhood and the first poignant problems of adolesence...read more

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9781861055187 | Robson Book Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: Sharp, sad and romantic, Dannie Abse's reminisces tell of the private fortunes of a Jewish family in Cardiff amid the troubled tapestry of the times.

There Was a Young Man from Cardiff

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By Dannie Abse

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9781854112880 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 17, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Abse, Dannie

Be Seated, Thou: Poems1989-1998

Product Description: Dannie Abse, the great Welsh poet, is clearly in the devil's party: his work has a cauterizing honesty and a clear and lyrical beauty that serves his and our humanity. Like William Carlos Williams and John Keats, Abse is a medical doctor who deals with life and death with the steady hand of one who is especially familiar with them, as if they were fellow citizens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dannie Abse

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9781878818836 | Sheep Meadow Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Dannie Abse, the great Welsh poet, is clearly in the devil's party: his work has a cauterizing honesty and a clear and lyrical beauty that serves his and our humanity.

Triquarterly Issue 105

Product Description: Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of Susan Firestone Hahn, TriQuarterly continues to publish the best work of both established and new poets and fiction writers...read more

By Dannie Abse, Edward Falco, David Ferry, Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips, Ira Sadoff and Wislawa Szymborska

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9780810159044 | Triquarterly Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country.

Welsh Retrospective

Product Description: "Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain's most popular poets. Dannie Abse's Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular, have haunted his imagination...read more

By Dannie Abse and Cary Archard (editor)

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9781854112019 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, April 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain's most popular poets.

On the Evening Road

Product Description: In this poetry collection, the magic of the Jewish folk tradition and the more contemporary scientific magic of medicine complement each other in all their contrasts, and there are playful poems of everyday experience as well as serious poetic explorations of art and all its aspects...read more

By Dannie Abse

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9780091789411 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In this poetry collection, the magic of the Jewish folk tradition and the more contemporary scientific magic of medicine complement each other in all their contrasts, and there are playful poems of everyday experience as well as serious poetic explorations of art and all its aspects.

Intermittent Journals

By Dannie Abse

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9781854111098 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, June 1, 1995, cover price $16.95

9781854111081 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, June 1, 1995, cover price $17.95

The Music Lover's Literary Companion

Product Description: The Music Lover's Literary Companion contains much of the best imaginative writing about music and musicians by authors present and past. Here, among much else, can be found vivid autobiographical writings by Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Shaw and many others, and hilariously funny account of a night at the opera by Bernard Levin, caustic comments by Tolstoy and Carlisle, Philip Larkin's charming description of his early attachment to jazz and Alred Brendel's confessions of his anxiety about the pianos that wait for him in a hundred concert halls...read more

By Dannie Abse and Joan Abse (compiler)

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9780860515258, titled "The Music Lover's Literary Companion" | Parkwest Pubns, May 1, 1990, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Music Lover's Literary Companion contains much of the best imaginative writing about music and musicians by authors present and past.

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9780860516545, titled "Music Lover's Literary Companion" | Robson Book Ltd, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Music Lover's Literary Companion contains much of the best imaginative writing about music and musicians by authors present and past.

Remembrance of Crimes Past: Poems

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By Dannie Abse

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9780892551767 | Reprint edition (Persea Books, March 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Abse, Dannie

White Coat, Purple Coat: Collected Poems, 1948-1988

Product Description: This collection spans the full range of the poet's published works from "The Uninvited" to "Ask the Bloody Horse", as well as incorporating new poems. Apart from poetry, Dannie Abse has published two novels and two autobiographical works: "A Poet in the Family" and "A Strong Dose of Myself"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dannie Abse

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9780892551538 | Persea Books, February 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection spans the full range of the poet's published works from "The Uninvited" to "Ask the Bloody Horse", as well as incorporating new poems.

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9780892551774, titled "White Coat, Purple Coat: Collected Poems 1948-1988" | Reprint edition (George Braziller, August 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This collection spans the full range of the poet's published works from "The Uninvited" to "Ask the Bloody Horse", as well as incorporating new poems.

Dannie Abse: The View from Row G : Three Plays

Product Description: Abse is one of Britain's leading and best-loved literary figures. These plays House of Cowards, The Dogs of Pavlov, and Pythagoras (Smith) were written in reaction to the Holocaust. House of Cowards concerns the willingness of people to surrender their individuality to a charismatic leader; The Dogs of Pavlov explores the conditioning of people to perform unthinking evil; and Pythagoras (Smith) is set in an asylum and is concerned with the relationship of patient, doctor, medicine, and magic...read more

By Dannie Abse and James A. Davies (editor)

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9781854110220 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, May 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Abse is one of Britain's leading and best-loved literary figures.

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