Dannie Abse

Born- 22nd September 1923

Dannie is a poet, author, doctor and playwright.

Abse first studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, and then at Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London.

He was born into a Jewish family in Wales and was the younger brother of Wilfred Abse, a psychoanalyst. His brother, Leo Abse, was a prominent politician.

The welsh poet has written 17 books since 1954 to 2003.

Returning from a poetry reading in Golders Green he was involved in a car accident where his wife Joan died. He mourned over the death of his wife in his 2007 memoir "The Presence".