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	New editions in paperback of T.F. Powys's UNCLAY (with an Introduction by John Gray) and KINDNESS IN A CORNER (with an Introduction by Glen Cavaliero) from The Sundial Press. From CECIL WOOLF Publishers two long-awaited additions to the Uniform Edition of the Collected Letters of John Cowper Powys: · The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson (edited by Janet Fouli) 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-897967-27-0 £35.00 · The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman (edited by David Goodway) 188 pp. ISBN 978-1-897967-84-3 £30.00 Click here to read a review by John Dunn. Available from: Cecil Woolf Publishers. 1 Mornington Place, London NW1 7RP Telephone/Fax 020 7387 2394 For further details of both titles and a SPECIAL OFFER TO MEMBERS OF THE POWYS SOCIETY please click here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys by Morine Krissdóttir published Oct 2007 A selection of Reviews: Roger Boylan in the Boston Review (April 2008) under the title 'The Monarch of All'. To read the review, in PDF format, please click here (opens in a new window). A.N. Wilson in The Spectator (February 13, 2008) under the title 'The strange experience of England.' To read the review, in PDF format, click here. Peter Stanford in The Daily Telegraph, under the title, 'My head began bursting as I read'. To read the review, in PDF format, click here. Margaret Drabble in the TLS (Nov. 14, 2007) under the title 'The facts and fictions of John Cowper Powys'. To read the review, in PDF format, click here John Gray in the Literary Review under the title 'The Dorset Proust'. To read the review, in PDF format, click here The biography is due to appear in paperback format in July, 2008, at £18.95. The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys was issued in paperback by the American publisher BiblioBazaar in Dec 2007. It is available in the UK as an import (ISBN: 978-1-4346-8565-0) for around £11.25 Published by Crescent Moon Publishing on 1^st Feb 2008, a revised edition in paperback (116 pages) of Amorous Life: John Cowper Powys and the Manifestation of Affectivity by H.W. Fawkner. £10.00

	~ A new edition of PORIUS, edited by Morine Krissdóttir and Judith Bond, published by Duckworth in the UK and Overlook in the USA. Porius has never been published in its intended form – until now. The culmination of a lifelong passion for Wales and its mythology, *Porius* is at once a historical novel and a commentary on the nature of modern warfare. 'Surely the most criminally neglected English novel of all time? This is truly a huge book in all aspects; size - 750 pages of beautifully dense closely scripted prose, but also scope - for Powys attempts a rare and ambitious thesis of describing the very process by which myths are manufactured. In describing events occurring during just one week in 499A.D.he far exceeds the torpid Fantasy genre that could easily claim this novel as their own. Yes all the names are their (with appropriately alternative spellings, Arthur, Merlin, Taliesin et al) but, most importantly, they form a mythopoetic backdrop for a much more historically specific drama to ripple outwards. A very easy novel to misjudge by its cover, even its blurb. However for those who would enjoy the meatiest read of an almost Shakespearean scope addled with a Proustian sensitivity, Lawrentian eroticism and an almost Joycean fixation with language this could be the one for you. All four literary giants are namechecked in reviews by much more intelligent readers than myself on the back cover! Simply the best novel I have encountered this millennium...and then some.' - E. D. Barry 4 April 2008




Descents of Memory	Porius	A Glastonbury Romance	Mr Weston's Good Wine	A Bibliography of Llewelyn Powys	Durdle Door to Dartmoor: Wessex Essays

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