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Powys Society Publication List Powys titles currently in print A Visit to The National Library of Wales Supplement to Powys Checklist & Readers’ Guide 2010 TFP The Voice of God by Michael Kowalewski JCP OWEN GLENDOWER The Seen and the Unseen by P.J. Kavanagh First Powys Lecture in Ireland
A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE REVISITED
JOHN COWPER POWYS AND THE SOUL
Llewelyn Powys
SORREL BARN Phiippa Powys
(Reprinted by Faber Finds)
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THE POWYS SOCIETY welcomes general readers, academics and everyone else who appreciates the works of the Powyses - specifically but not exclusively John Cowper, Theodore and Llewelyn - or would like to discover more. Membership is open to all and Powys readers from around the world are welcome - indeed, actively encouraged - to join the Society. The aims of The Powys Society are: - To promote a wider general readership and stimulate scholarly study and discussion of the works of the Powys brothers - To actively promote an expanded universe around the Powyses - To provide a comprehensive and accurate resource on the life and works of the Powyses
JOIN THE SOCIETY ~ Membership benefits include: - A membership pack on joining. - An annual Journal devoted to the study of the life and works of John Cowper, Theodore and Llewelyn Powys plus three 50 page newsletters (March, July and November). - The Society is active in promoting the life and works of the Powys family. Speakers are arranged for special events. - Opportunities to meet fellow Powysians and those who share your interest. - An annual weekend conference and Powys Days. JOIN US We welcome you to explore this website at your leisure. The site is regularly updated so please check back. Should you have any comments or suggestions please do not hesitate to make contact.
For the latest Society news click on the link in the navigation bar above or here . "A genius - a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion." - Margaret Drabble on John Cowper Powys “The one author I could not live without is John Cowper Powys” – Bernard Cornwell “ … why not read John Cowper Powys instead of the pretentious and tedious D H Lawrence?” – Simon Heffer "Powys evoked the English landscape with an almost sexual intensity. Hardy comes to mind, but a Hardy drunk and feverish with mystical exuberance." - Philip Pullman on John Cowper Powys "Llewelyn Powys is one of those rare writers who teach endurance of life as well as its enjoyment." - Philip Larkin "T. F. Powys, that master of rural understatement whose wry humour and warmth, and whose marvellous narrational 'pull', are irresistible." - Ronald Blythe "Theodore Powys wrote extraordinary fables of English country life. Bloomsbury admirers hailed them as the singular works of a dark and brooding genius." - P. Wright "Theodore Powys, the brother of Llewelyn, is a rare person." - T. E. Lawrence "For when we talk of the Powyses, either individually or as a group, we do not speak of personalities merely, for their various works and characters interact with those of their readers and create new realms of experience. To adapt Auden's poem 'Edward Lear', they have become a land, and those who explore it can appropriate to themselves what they find there. To that extent they themselves are witness to the Powys mystique and may justifiably feel grateful for their citizenship of this complex and endlessly accommodating province of the corporate literary imagination." From That Goblin Race: The Powys Family Mystique by Glen Cavaliero (The Powys Journal Vol. XIX ) The 52 page Powys Society Newsletter No 74, November 2011, has just been published and issued to all members. Below is the corrected version.
The latest Conference triple DVD set, Llangollen 2011, is now available here “In books dwell all the demons and all the angels of the human mind. It is for this reason that a bookshop — especially a second-hand bookshop / antiquarian — is an arsenal of explosives, an armoury of revolutions, an opium den of reaction.” — John Cowper Powys “She would wish that far stranger weddings happened in the world than anything that she saw or heard of at Madder. She needed much more than plain Madder life to interest her —some events more like a proceeding that had happened in a book of fables that she had once read, where a little mouse wished to be joined in holy wedlock with a lioness, who, unluckily going out to meet her little dear before the wedding, chanced to set her foot upon him.” — T.F. Powys "No sight that the human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.” — Llewelyn Powys From AUTOBIOGRAPHY by John Cowper Powys: “I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.” One is tempted to say only John Cowper Powys could have written that, and, beyond doubt, only John Cowper Powys could have written the idiosyncratic and spellbinding work we have here. Yes, he was influenced by Yeats and Rousseau, especially the latter’s Confessions, but there is no other work quite like this. It seems almost too pedestrian to say it covers the first sixty years of his life (he lived for another thirty years) and to say anything about them, as J. B. Priestley memorably put it, “would be like turning on a tap before introducing people to Niagara Falls.” J. B. Priestley also said “It is a book which can be read, with pleasure and profit, over and over again. It is in fact one of the greatest autobiographies in the English language. Even if Powys had never written any novels, this one book alone would have proved him to be a writer of genius.” ‘NATURE FROM THE START HAS MADE ME AN ACTOR’ There has always been, by his own admission, a touch of the theatrical about John Cowper Powys: 'There is no use trying to conceal the fact', he wrote in the Autobiography, 'that Nature from the start had made me an actor.'
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A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE |
PORIUS |
A Powys Society Meeting |
UNCLAY |
MR WESTON'S GOOD WINE |
GLORY OF LIFE Llewelyn Powys |
IMPASSIONED CLAY Llewelyn Powys |
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