Dannie Abse

From early in her career FA was an insightful critic as well as a poet, and her judgements were already informed by a matured understanding of the shaping force of gender. Dannie Abse included her...

SP contributed to an anthology of Welsh writers, Poets Against Apartheid, 1986, a poem entitled Because. She is also represented in later Welsh anthologies: Twentieth-Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry, edited by Dannie Abse ...

It was a friend from Cardiff, the poet Dannie Abse , who introduced BR to her future husband. Rubens was an almost lifelong friend of Beryl Bainbridge . Other close friends were novelist Paul Bailey

This poem was reprinted in Angel. Other poets to appear in this series, each on a different coloured sheet of paper, were Carol Ann Duffy , Judi Benson , Anne Born , Carole Coates

With Amy Clampitt and Craig Raine , AS selected and edited for the Arvon Foundation the 1985 Anthology of poems from the Observer and Ronald Duncan Foundation International Poetry Competition. This anthology appeared in 1987...