The Presence
Dannie Abse author Jasmine Donahaye editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Parthian Books
Published:1st Nov '26
£11.00
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Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years. It is an extraordinary document, painful but celebratory, funny yet often tragic, bursting with joy as well as sorrow and full of a deep understanding of what it means to be human.
‘A truly marvellous book’ – The Independent
‘No doubt the subject matter of mourning is one of the many ways that readers will come to this book who might otherwise know nothing about the author. If The Presence is the introduction to his writing, it serves as a good one: restrained in expression, and yet more frank, more open, more vulnerable than anything he published before.’ – Jasmine Donahaye
ISBN: 9781917140478
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180 pages