Dannie Abse
Tuesday 26 June 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to veteran poet Dannie Abse about his new book The Presence.
This memoir of his wife Joan, who died tragically in a car accident in 2005, evolved from a diary Abse kept to record his grief and paints a portrait of the couple's marriage of more than 50 years.
Woody Allen
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Dannie Abse
Gabriel talks to the poet Dannie Abse about his new book, The Presence, a memoir of his wife Joan who died tragically in a car accident in 2005. Some months after her death, Abse began to keep a diary of his grief and to paint a portrait of their marriage of over fifty years. As he explains to Gabriel, this book is the result.
The Presence by Dannie Abse is published by Hutchinson on 5th July
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