The Yellow Bird

Dannie Abse is a Welsh lyrical poet and medical doctor with a choirmaster's ear for language. Readers will hear, where there is narrative in these poems, a sometimes distant, sometimes nearby Welsh-English sound - call it pitch, call it history. And where there is song, something other - passages particularly beautiful in a language that is extra-English. There is mystical, moral sunlight in Abse's poetry, a gift for the simple truth.

About the author

Dannie Abse was born in Wales in 1925. He spent many years as a chest specialist in a London teaching hospital. He has published over 20 books, including four novels and a memoir.

Product details

• Authors: Dannie Abse
• Assisted by: Sheep Meadow Press (Editor)
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2004
• EAN: 9781931357241
• ISBN: 978-1-931357-24-1
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies