Tuesday 28 May 2024 — Zoom Discussion of ‘Burial and Sleep’, Chapter 28 of JCP’s Porius
At 19:00 GMT
All those wishing to participate in the ZOOM discussion please e-mail Dawn Collins at thepowyssocietyfb@btinternet.com.
ZOOM connection details will be emailed to individuals well before the meeting
Dawn Collins’ well-bookmarked copy
As previously, all are welcome either as contributors or as spectators
As a follow-on to our last FaceBook discussion we return to Porius for a final session. Dawn invites suggestions for discussion topics based on Chapter 28.
(e-mail Dawn Collins at thepowyssocietyfb@btinternet.com).
Tuesday 13 August 2024 — Llewelyn Powys birthday walk
This be the sign
From Neil Lee-Atkin:
The Llewelyn Birthday Walk & the annual gathering of the Dandelion Fellowship will take place on Tuesday August 13th 2024 which this year will also be a Memorial Walk to commemorate my wife and Paul Gillingham, both long time members of our little band of the Friends of Llewelyn Powys who have left us recently.
We will meet as usual at The Sailor’s Return in East Chaldon at 12 noon for lunch, the annual toast, and a reading from Llewelyn’s Book of Days.
The walk will commence around 1.30pm. All are welcome.
For enquiries & information please contact Neil Lee-Atkin at reblee.tom@gmail.com
Saturday 19 October 2024
— A meeting to discuss T. F. Powys’s allegorical novel Mr Weston’s Good Wine, led by Marcel Bradbury.
Mr Weston's Good Wine (1927), frontispiece, G. Charlton
Venue: The Old Fire Engine House, 25 St Mary’s Street, Ely.
11.00 to 16.00 (with break for lunch)
All are welcome. The event is free with the exception of lunch which is optional and may be taken in the restaurant at the venue. A contribution towards the cost of refreshments is voluntary If members wish to attend please notify Hon Secretary by 31 March 2024.
Mr Weston’s Good Wine was written between January 1924 and the autumn of 1925 and first published by Chatto & Windus in 1927 with illustrations by George Charlton.
Harry Coombes, in his book about TFP, published in 1960, notes: “Mr Weston’s Good Wine, though tragic in its recognition of evil, of man’s blindness, weakness, and failures, of their common fate in death, is tragic also in the profound sympathy…with which Powys observes and comments on the human scene…It is Powys’s masterpiece because it is his fullest and most perfect artistic utterance….Mr Weston’s Good Wine is among the finest of those ‘novels as dramatic poems’ which hold more of the English body and spirit, more essential Englishness than any other genre since Jacobean times.”
