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The latest Conference double DVD, Llangollen 2009, is available priced at just £6.00.
THE POWYS SOCIETY CONFERENCE - Llangollen, August 2009 A DVD of presentations from the 2009 Conference is available. If you would like a copy (2 discs) the cost is £6. Please order from Raymond Cox, 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 2UJ (Cheques to R E Cox, not the Powys Society)
DISC ONE Total time: 111mins. 1. Tim Blanchard: 'I must have some tea': drink, drugs and defiance in the novels of John Cowper Powys (c27mins). 2. Janet Fouli: 'The Eternal Feminine: John Cowper Powys, Dorothy Richardson, and the two silent spouses..and Frances'. (c.55mins). 3. Charles Lock: 'Dostoievsky as Revelation: on John Cowper Powys and Rowan Williams (c.27mins).
DISC TWO Total time: 112mins. 4. Angelika Reichmann; 'Dostoievsky and John Cowper Powys - Influence Without Anxiety (c53mins). 5. Reading of scenes from John Cowper Powys's stage adaptation of Dostoievsky's The Idiot: Rogozhin.......................................Richard Graves Prince Myschkin............................. Patrick Kavanagh Ganya, the General's Secretary.........Richard Maxwell Aglaia, the General's daughter...........Penelope Shuttle Nastasya, Afanasy's mistress............Kate Kavanagh General Epanchin............................Timothy Hyman Afanasy Ivanovitch..........................Peter Lazare Dostoievsky.................................. John Hodgson John Cowper Powys.........................Kieron McCann Devised by John Hodgson (c.59mins).
Combined total time of both discs: 3hrs 43mins.
THE POWYS SOCIETY CONFERENCE at The University of Chichester - August 2008
"....OTHER DIMENSIONS...." DISC ONE Gathering The Cloisters Chamber, Old College Building Talk: Glen Cavaliero: "That Goblin Race - The Powys Family Mystique" (55m) Talk: Arjen Mulder: "Becoming John Cowper Powys" (40m) Coffee under the trees Total time - 1hr 37
DISC TWO Talk: David Goodway: "John Cowper Powys, Emma Goldman and Anarchy" (58m) A Powysian lunch A Window for Other Dimensions? Talk: Bill Keith: "John Cowper Powys and Other Dimensions - The Evidence of His Fiction" (54m) Downland tracks and flowers near Burpham Total time - 1hr 56m (The cost is the same as previously and includes both discs.)
DVD's available of presentations from previous Powys Society Conferences: 1. Llangollen - August 2005: Parts of talks by Charles Lock - 'Atlantis and Homer and the Ether' Richard Maxwell - 'Rescuing Time in "Porius"' Barbara Ozieblo - 'The Friendship of Women: Alyse Gregory and Gamel Woolsey' Complete talk by Ian Robinson - 'T F Powys and the Renewal of English Prose' Dramatisation of various letters of Louis Wilkinson, Frances Gregg, John Cowper Powys etc. Discussion: 'The Influence of Place in the Life and Works of the Powyses Scenes at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Castell Dinas Bran and Valle Crucis Abbey --------------------------- 2. Chichester - August 2006: Complete talks: John Gray - 'Three Powys Philosophies' W J Keith (read by T. Hyman in his absence) - 'Coming to Terms with JCP’s "Autobiography" Henning Ahrens - 'JCP’s Philosophy Revisited' Elaine Mencher - 'Editing T F Powys' A reading of the play 'The Sin Eater' by T F Powys ----------------------------- 3. Llangollen - August 2007: Complete talks: Peter Foss - 'The Bibliography of Llewelyn Powys' Harald Fawkner - 'The Indifference of Nature - Realness in "A Glastonbury Romance"' Florence-Catherine Marie-Laverrou - 'Encroaching Fields in "Weymouth Sands"' Poetry readings from Roy Fisher and Penelope Shuttle -----------------------------
Conference DVD's are available from Raymond Cox. To order Write to: R. Cox. 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 2UJ Telephone: 01384 566383 Email: Raymond Cox Each DVD is payable to R E Cox, not the Powys Society, and the cost is £6 (£2 of this is included as a donation to the Society).
A DVD presentation of the 2009 Conference RAVISHING LIMBO now available. |
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