Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse is a welsh poet who was born in Cardiff on the 22nd of September, 1923. He originally studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine and then went on to Westminister Hospital Medical School and King's College London. He is currently the president of the Welsh Academy of Letters and was recently awarded a CBE. The first book he published was called After Every Green Thing in 1948 to recently writing Speak, Old Parrot in 2013. In 2009, he brought out a volume of collected poetry.