Description
Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain’s most popular poets. Dannie Abse’s Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular, have haunted his imagination. In this revealing new book book he writes movingly about the Cardiff of his childhood, home of his beloved Bluebirds football team, and also about the small village of Ogmore-by-Sea, location of early holidays and for many years his home in Wales. Selected from the whole of Dannie Abse’s writing career, the book includes such well known and well-loved poems as Return to Cardiff and In the Theatre alongside many previously uncollected poems. Some poems draw on Jewish writings, others on Welsh language literature.
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Sister Outsider 
The Poem 
How to Be a Poet 
52 Ways of Looking At a Poem 
States of Happiness 
Forgive the Language 
Milk and Honey 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Spiritlands 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Comic Poems 
Fauverie 
Gold from the Stone 
Counting Backwards 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Thyrea and other Sonnets 
Dog Poems 
Isn't Forever 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
My Family and Other Superheroes