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Dannie Abse was for many years a chest specialist in a London teaching hospital. A poet, reviewer and playwright, he has written and edited more than fifteen books of poetry, as well as books about medicine and also fiction. He is the author of Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve and several autobiographical volumes, including Goodbye, Twentieth Century, which was published in 2001 to critical acclaim. He died, at the age of 91, in September 2014.
The Presence is a fragment of autobiography written from the most private part of a poet's heart, with a pen dipped in blood and tears * Carol Ann Duffy, The Daily Telegraph * For all its painful honesty [The Presence is] a surprisingly joyful and compelling book... Imbued with all the best qualities of what it means to human and in love * Owen Sheers, Independent on Sunday * His best work in a long life of brilliant writing * Maggie Gee, New Statesman * Abse's poems are filled with wonder. He remains one of our few great poets of married love * Elaine Feinstein, The Times *
