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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.
These poems are brilliant, savage, witty - the work of an old master -- Stoddart Martin * Jewish Chronicle * This is a poet writing at the height of his powers -- Tony Curtis * The Planet * This marvellous book of poetry -- William Oxley * London Magazine * 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 *
