A moving memoir by a distinguished poet, written in the wake of his wife's death, this is a profound story of life, love and heartbreaking loss. Winner of the Wales Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerly Prize.
Dannie Abse was for many years a chest specialist in a London teaching hospital. A poet, reviewer and playwright, he has written and edited more than fifteen books of poetry, as well as books about medicine and also fiction. He is the author of Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve and several autobiographical volumes, including Goodbye, Twentieth Century, which was published in 2001 to critical acclaim. He died, at the age of 91, in September 2014.
A supremely fresh and vital performance, matching profound emotion
with witty observation... This is a truly marvellous book
*Independent*
Abse's diary is a remarkable and tender document
*Sunday Times*
For all its painful honesty, [this is] a surprisingly joyful and
compelling book... Imbued with all the best qualities of what it
means to human and in love
*Independent on Sunday*
The Presence is a fragment of autobiography written from the most
private part of a poet's heart, with a pen dipped in blood and
tears. That it transcends this to become both elegiac and
celebratory, to inhabit both the suffered present and the beloved
past, places it almost beyond the scope of routine criticism.
*Daily Telegraph*
Hauntingly poignant... One hopes that he comes before long to share
the happiness this wise, funny, heart rending little book brings to
its readers
*Daily Telegraph*
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