Dr Dannie Abse, CBE

Career: RAF 1951-54 Sqdn Ldr i/c Chest Clinic Central Med Estab London 1954-82; poet, playwright and novelist; sr fell of humanities Princeton Univ 1973-74; pres: Poetry Soc 1979-92, Welsh Acad of Letters 1995; Hon DLitt: Univ of Wales 1990, Univ of Glamorgan 1997; fell The Welsh Acad 1991-95, hon fell Univ of Cardiff Med Sch 1999; FRSL 1983, FKC

Books and Publications: Poetry After Every Thing Green (1948), Walking Under Water (1952), Tenants of the House (1957), Poems Golders Green (1962), A Small Desperation (1968), Funland and Other Poems (1973), Collected Poems (1977), Way Out in the Centre (1981), Ask the Bloody Horse (1986), White Coat, Purple Coat (1989), Remembrance of Crimes Past (1990), On The Evening Road (1994), Welsh Retrospective (1997), Arcadia, One Mile (1998), New and Collected Poems (2003), Running Late (2006), New Selected Poems (2009), Two for Joy (2010); Prose A Strong Dose of Myself (1983), Journals from the Ant-Heap (1986), Intermittent Journals (1994), The Two Roads Taken (2003), Dannie Abse, A Sourcebook (2010); Novels Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (1954), Some Corner of an English Field (1957), O Jones, O Jones (1970), There Was a Young Man from Cardiff (1991), The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas (2002); Autobiography A Poet in the Family (1974), Goodbye, Twentieth Century (2001), The Presence (2006); Plays House of Cowards (1960), The Dogs of Pavlov (1969), Pythagoras (1976), Gone in January (1978); Anthologies ed: Mavericks (with Howard Sergeant, 1957), Modern European Verse (1964), Voices in the Gallery (with Joan Abse, 1986), The Music Lover's Literary Companion (with Joan Abse, 1988), The Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poets (1989), 20th Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (1997)