UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 27, Page 4
April 15, 1993
Welsh poet-doctor to read poem's

     Welsh poet and part-time physician Dannie Abse will present readings
from his works at 4 p.m., today, in 112 Memorial Hall.
     Born in Cardiff, Wales, Abse was educated at the University of Wales,
Kings College (London) and Westminster Hospital. In 1949, he became a
member of the Royal College of Surgeons and was licensed by the Royal
College of Physicians in 1950. He served as squadron leader in the Royal
Air Force from 1951 to 1955.
     A versatile poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, editor and critic,
Abse has been a part-time physician at a London clinic. In the early 1970s,
he was writer-in-residence at Princeton University.
     In 1960, House of Cowards won the Charles Henry Foyle Award, and in
1979, he was given the Welsh Arts Council Literature Award for Pythagoras.
     Abse received both the Jewish Chronicle Book Award and the Welsh Arts
Council Literature Award for his Selected Poems in 1970.
     Author of several novels, including an autobiographical one, he also
has written several radio plays, edited books on modern poetry and European
verse and contributed to The New Yorker, Encounter, Punch and other
magazines.
     Free and open to the public, the lecture is sponsored by the
Department of English and the College of Arts and Science.