Intermittent Journals

<p>"More, please Dannie" said <i>The Sunday Times</i> on the publication of <i>Journals from the Ant-Heap</i> in 1986. <i>Intermittent Journals</i> answers that call, bringing back into print that book and adding to it <i>Notes Mainly from the Clinic</i> (1981), unpublished new jottings 1987-1992, and a specially commissioned journal for 1993, Abse''s seventieth birthday year. <br><br>Doctors becoming ill, the shortcomings of opera, phoning Larkin from America, the peer with the Harold Wilson pin-up, the etiquette of poetry readings, this is Abse on the human race and, as his grandson corrects him, the egg-and-spoon race of life too. Witty, pointed, tender, gently self-mocking, <i>Intermittent Journals</i> is a stimulating, sometimes argumentative set of contemplations provoking both outright laughter and pause for serious thought.<br><br>"A delightful diary… warm, witty and wise... beautiful observation"<br>Graham Lord, <i>Sunday Express</i><br><br>"The most elegant diary columns since literacy went out of fashion… consistent brilliance" <br>Gerald Priestland<br><br><b>Dannie Abse</b> (b.1923) was born in Cardiff and studied Medicine at Cardiff, King''s College and Westminster Hospital. A poet, novelist, playwright, he has also published diaries and autobiography. He has published eleven volumes of poetry including a Collected Poems.</p>