Creator Bio
Dannie Abse
1923–2014
With dual careers in writing and medicine, Dannie Abse was a Welsh physician, poet, playwright, and novelist who lived in London. His poetry, addressing identity and existence as well as daily life, has been collected in over a dozen volumes. In addition, Abse published more than ten plays, several novels, and essays and stories about medicine. Among other honors, he received the Charles Henry Foyle Award, the Jewish Chronicle Book Award, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Wilfred Owen poetry award.
Content by Dannie Abse
Primary Source
Uncle Isidore
When I observe a toothless ex-violinist,
with more hair than face, sprawled like Karl Marx
on a park seat or slumped, dead or asleep,
in the central heat of a public library
I think of Uncle Isidore…