He has for decades been associated with, and living in, the north-west area of London, mainly in and around Hampstead with which he has considerable ties. For many years he wrote a column for the Ham & High (Hampstead and Highgate Express) local newspaper, the articles subsequently being published in book form.
Dannie revises and expands this early autobiography and, in the second half, brings his life up to the present and the birth of a new century.
Dannie's new poems draw on the strengths and preoccupations of a long and distinguished career, with evocations of a Welsh childhood and re-interpretations of bardic and Jewish mythology.