Books Books Books
Category: Anthologies, Criticism, Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry, Poetry Anthologies
Number of pages: 304
ISBN: 9781854115072
Publication date: April 3, 2010
Price: £14.99
Dannie Abse, whose career as a poet spans sixty years, has made a huge contribution to the literature and literary life of Wales and to writing in English. This Sourcebook is an essential companion to the poetry, prose, drama and critical writings of a major poet. Cary Archard has edited and written about Abse’s work for over twenty years and collects here a marvellous representative selection of Abse’s own writings, together with comment on and critical responses to his work, which illuminates Abse’s achievements for both students and general readers.
Dannie Abse: A Sourcebook includes: a biographical and critical introduction; a selection of Abse’s criticism, autobiography and fiction; interviews with Abse; reviews of Abse’s poetry over sixty years; essays on Abse’s poetry, some specially commissioned; a bibliography; inde.
Cary Archard
Cary Archard was born in south Wales, close to Aberdare, Alun Lewis’s home town. The editor of Poetry Wales from 1980-86, and founder of Poetry Wales Press, he is the general editor of the uniform edition of Alun Lewis’s works. Until recently he taught English and Philosophy in Bridgend.
Dannie Abse CBE
Dannie Abse CBE (1923-2014) was born in Cardiff and studied Medicine at Cardiff, King’s College and Westminster Hospital. A poet, novelist, playwright, he has also published diaries and autobiography. He published sixteen volumes of poetry including a Collected Poems.
