Squaring the Circle Suhail Sami Nader Dannie Abse's Welsh and Jewish

Dannie Abse's Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings

Letters So That Happiness is the first of his works to be translated and published in English

Rosie Larner

This is a gorgeous collection

From journeymen musicians to stars with many albums to their name

Squaring the Circle Suhail Sami Nader Dannie Abse's Welsh and JewishPhilip Fried's Squaring the Circle is humorous and yet also mysterious in its evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of understanding God. Throughout, Fried uses pastiche and the mashup of texts to explore historical moments and personal history. Behind its many forms and approaches, however, the book conveys the