Welsh Retrospective Yahya Hijazi Sincerity and comedy attuned to

Sincerity and comedy attuned to a subtle ear make Swift a top quality poet

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and leaves from the apples scenting the air

Magnetic North (Lagan Press

Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago

Welsh Retrospective Yahya Hijazi Sincerity and comedy attuned toWelsh 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 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