{"id":2313,"date":"2014-10-07T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2014-10-07T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:14:09","slug":"remembering-dr-dannie-abse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/remembering-dr-dannie-abse\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dr. Dannie Abse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the sad news recently that the Welsh poet and author\u00a0Dr. Dannie Abse died last week, aged 91. I knew Dannie from my years working with his agent Robert Kirby at United Agents Literary Agency<\/a>. I have such fond memories of Dannie, from his weekly phone calls, to organising lunch at ‘The same place, same time’ (<\/span>Trattoria Mondello, Goodge St, 12.30pm – where Dannie introduced me to veal!)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to his hand written letters (Dannie didn’t use email…). His letters were always a joy to receive, small envelopes fronted with his elegant script. Sometimes asking Robert out for lunch, mostly\u00a0instructing him to do something with a hint of wit. Once including an old postcard of himself taken back in his youth as a doctor, a note on the back “Don’t I look handsome!”.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, before Dannie turned 90 I visited his home in North London for tea and a portrait. We chatted, had biscuits and he even made me read one of his poems to him. Nervous to impress, I’m pretty sure I made a mess of it. Luckily he took the book from me, and read one himself – showing me how it was done. A wonderful\u00a0voice, warm and deep.<\/p>\n

Dannie had an amazing life and will be sorely missed by many. He joins his wife whom he tragically lost in a car accident in 2005. His book The Presence <\/a>documents this difficult time in his life and is heartbreaking, touching and uplifting all at the same time, my personal recommended read.<\/p>\n

“we, more than one, less than two” Epithalamion<\/em><\/p>\n

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I had the sad news recently that the Welsh poet and author\u00a0Dr. Dannie Abse died last week, aged 91. I knew Dannie from my years working with his agent Robert Kirby at United Agents Literary Agency. I have such fond memories of Dannie, from his weekly phone calls, to organising lunch at ‘The same place, same time’ (Trattoria Mondello, Goodge St, 12.30pm – where Dannie introduced me to veal!)\u00a0to his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-portrait"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Author-Headshot-Portrait-Dr-Dannie-Abse-Charlotte-Knee-Photography-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlotteknee.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}