3rd January, 2012

Congratulations to Dannie Abse, as he becomes a CBE

Congratulations to Dannie Abse, as he becomes a CBE for his services to Poetry and Literature in the Queen’s New Year Honours List. Dannie Abse won the Wales Book of the Year in 2008 for The Presence, which he wrote after his wife died in a car crash. “When you’ve been given a compliment, I’ve learned to say thank you,” said the poet. He said the honour also let him reflect on his late brother Leo, who dies in 2008 and was known as a social reforming MP for Pontypool and then the new constituency of Torfaen.
Seren previously published Intermittent Journals, Welsh Retrospective and There Was a Young Man from Cardiff  by Dannie Abse.
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