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what it is we risk losing
Selected from the whole of Dannie Abse's writing career
Alexis Stamatis
Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow)… [Others] are poems of pity and terror
The Turpentine Tree Mona Kareem what it is we riskThe Turpentine Tree employs strong, sensuous imagery to explore displacement, solitude and the search for connection. Drawing on memories from a life uprooted by time spent at sea, widowhood, and loss, she conjures vivid portraits of family, friends and loved ones. Often these recollections are bittersweet, recalling friends and lovers lost, including her later partner, Dannie Abse. From her experiences of loss and solitude come landscapes of silence:
