Dannie Abse

Writer and physician, born in Cardiff, S Wales, UK. He studied at the Welsh National School of Medicine, King's College London, and Westminster Hospital, becoming senior specialist in the chest clinic at the Central Medical Establishment, London, in 1954. His literary output includes several volumes of poetry, four novels, and a number of plays. His autobiographical volumes are A Poet in the Family (1974), A Strong Dose of Myself (1983), There was a Young Man from Cardiff (1991), and the novel Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (1954). Later work includes Arcadia, One Mile (1997) and Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (1997).

Daniel Abse, known as Dannie Abse (born September 22, 1923) is a British poet and writer. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse.

Abse's first poetic volume After Every Green Thing was published in 1949. His autobiographic work Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve was published in 1954.

He has for decades been associated with, and living in, the north-west area of London, mainly in and around Hampstead with which he has considerable ties. High (Hampstead and Highgate Express) local newspaper, the articles subsequently being published in book form.

Dannie Abse lives in Golders Green - as well as a summer house at Ogmore-by-Sea in his native Wales. Abse suffered a broken rib.