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COLLECTIONS  In addition to the Powys Society’s own Collection there are a number of other literary archives containing primary documents by the Powyses disbursed among both UK and USA institutions and university libraries. The Society's Hon. Secretary, Chris Thomas, has complied a meticulously researched and comprehensive Powys Webliography.

The following three links list Powys books currently available online:

John Cowper Powys Internet Archive

Theodore Powys Internet Archive

Llewelyn Powys Internet Archive

A Writer's Dorset: A Writer's Gallery at The Dorset County Museum. The gallery explores the lives and work of Dorset writers from Anglo Saxon times to the twentieth century. Amongst the twentieth century literary figures to be found in the gallery's final room are three members of the remarkable Powys family. 

FABER FINDS, an imprint of Faber & Faber, has made eight of John Cowper Powys’s novels available again using print on-demand technology. (Wood and Stone, Ducdame, Rodmoor, After My Fashion, Morwyn, Atlantis, The Brazen Head and The Inmates.) More information

'Little Blue Books' The Haldeman-Julius series of "Little Blue Books" sported some 10 titles by John Cowper Powys, 2 titles by Llewelyn Powys, and a title translated from French by Phyllis Playter. A site of interest for Powysians and those who wish more in-depth information regarding Emanuel Haldeman-Julius and his Little Blue Books. Visit

The Thomas Hardy Society’s Website - to promote the novelist and poet’s works for both education and enjoyment. It is for scholars, students, readers, enthusiasts and anyone with an interest in Thomas Hardy.

Richard Perceval Graves is the author of several acclaimed biographies, including The Brothers Powys and was Chairman of The Powys Society from 2001-2005. Here you will also find details of two Powys lectures especially suitable for VI-forms or Undergraduate Societies. 

Crescent Moon Publishing have issued six volumes of essays on John Cowper Powys:

·         Amorous Life: John Cowper Powys and the Manifestation of Affectivity by H.W. Fawkner

·         Rethinking Powys: Critical Essays on John Cowper Powys edited and introduced by Jeremy Robinson

·         Postmodern Powys by Joe Boulter  

·         Thomas Hardy and John Cowper Powys: Wessex Revisited by Jeremy Robinson

·         Sensualism and Mythology: The Wessex Novels of John Cowper Powys by Jeremy Robinson

·         The Ecstasies of John Cowper Powys by A.P. Seabright

Jacqueline Peltier's A Powys Website. Includes a 'virtual visit' to Weymouth Sands, and pages on John Cowper Powys in America' 

The Swedish John Cowper Powys Society issues a regular bilingual newsletter, arranges a yearly seminar and  is administered by Olof Björner.

The Brynmill Press has issued several important previously unpublished works by T.F. Powys - 'Father Adam' (1990) - 'The Market Bell' (1991) - 'Mock’s Curse' (1995) - 'The Sixpenny Strumpet' (1997) - 'Selected Early Works' (2005) - as well as a memoir 'Cuckoo in The Powys Nest' by T.F.Powys's adopted daughter, Theodora Scutt, and 'T. F. POWYS Aspects of a Life' by J. Lawrence Mitchell.

The Sundial Press is an independent publisher with a programme of reprints of early-twentieth-century books with new introductions, including works by Alyse Gregory (Hester Craddock), Llewelyn (two volumes of Wessex Essays), Theodore (Unclay and Kindness in a Corner), Philippa (The Blackthorrn Winter) and Littleton Powys (The Joy Of It - forthcoming).

John Cowper Powys in Sussex. A web site worth looking at the early years of JCP's adult life in Sussex, compiled by Kieran McCann. 

The Derbyshire Powyses - Britain's most accomplished literary family. The Forgotten Roots of Britain's most accomplished Literary Family.

A review of A Philosophy of Solitude by John Cowper Powys. JCP's best non-fiction book?

A Dorothy Richardson Society has recently been formed.

The OSCHOLARS Library: An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information on Current Research, Publications and Productions concerning Oscar Wilde and His Worlds. Amongst the wealth of information on this fascinating site, you can read John Cowper Powys’s Introduction (“… our commercialised life has grown so monstrously ungracious.”) to Wilde’s The Soul of Man under Socialism.

John Dunn A Poet. Visit his website A Contemplative Life here.

Sparrowthorn the website of Kate and P.J. Kavanagh 

     BLOGS A number of these featuring John Cowper Powys are emerging on the internet and we list a small selection on this page.

The daemonic genius of John Cowper Powys An appraisal of A Glastonbury Romance "his astounding novel" by Paul Weston, author of Mysterium Artorius and speaker at the Powys Society's 2010 Conference.

The Imaginary Museum Who’s Afraid of John Cowper Powys? which you can visit here.

Descriptedlines  “Not without caution do I place my first step into John Cowper Powys’s town of Glastonbury.” Some thoughts on JCP's novel by Amber Paulen

If you have other links which you would like us to consider including, please send an email with details. Note that we are not responsible for the content of external web sites to which we may link. Such a link does not imply any endorsement of the linked site by the Powys Society.  

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Often described as one of the great apocalyptic novels of our time, WOLF SOLENT is the story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is a classicwork combining a close understanding of man's everyday experience with a delicate awareness of the spiritual.

WOLF SOLENT

John Cowper Powys

A Powys Society Meeting

Mr Weston's Good Wine is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when Time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift of awareness falls upon a dozen memorable characters. During the book a child knocked down by his car is miraculously brought back to life; the sign 'Mr Weston's Good Wine' lights up the sky; and the villagers soon discover that the wine he sells is no ordinary wine.

MR WESTON'S GOOD WINE

T.F. Powys

SOMERSET ESSAYS

Llewelyn Powys

Two POWYS DAYS: CAMBRIDGE on Saturday 24 April 2010 and DORCHESTER on Saturday 5 June 2010. Powys Society Annual Conference 2010 at the Wessex Hotel, Street, Somerset, on Friday 20th August - Sunday 22nd August
 

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