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.

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.