Dannie Abse
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Dannie Abse CBE FRSL |
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| Born | Daniel Abse 22 September 1923 Cardiff, Wales |
| Died | 28 September 2014 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
University of Wales College of Medicine, King's College London. |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards |
Cholmondeley Award, Wilfred Owen Poetry Award, Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine |
| Spouse | Joan Abse |
Daniel Abse, CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet.
Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, to a Jewish family. He was the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse. Unusually for a middle-class Jewish boy, Dannie Abse attended St Illtyd’s College, a working-class Catholic school in Splott. Abse studied medicine, first at the University of Wales College of Medicine, and then at Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London.
Abse was a passionate supporter of Cardiff City football club. He first went to watch them play in 1934 and many of his writings refer to his experiences watching and lifelong love of The Bluebirds.
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 received numerous literary awards and fellowships for his writing. In 1989, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales.
His first poetic volume, After Every Green Thing, was published in 1949. His autobiographic work, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve, was published in 1954. He won the Welsh Arts Council Award in both 1971 and 1987, and the Cholmondeley Award in 1985. He was a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature from 1983. In a foreword to "Collected Poems 1948-1976" Abse noted that his poems are increasingly 'rooted in actual experience', both domestic and professional, and many display a reconciliation between Jewish and Welsh themes and traditions.
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