Past Conferences: 1993

Writers in a Landscape

The Conference was held at Kingston Maurward, Dorchester, Saturday 21 August to Tuesday 24 August 1993

Programme

Saturday 21 August

5.45 Dinner at Kingston Maurward
7.00 Reception and private viewing: Powys Exhibition at the Dorset County Museum
8.00 Richard de Peyer: Literary Centres and Museums

Sunday 22 August

9.15 Janina Nordius: ‘A Huge Phantasmal Ship ’-.Dreaming Maiden Castle
11.00 Lawrence Mitchell: Theodore’s Visionary Landscapes
2.00 Roger Peers: In the Footsteps of J. C. P.: Dorchester, 1934/35. A guided walk around Dorchester and environs
8.00 Book Sale

Monday 23 August

9.15 Judith Stinton: Chaldon Herring: A Place Apart
11.00 Glen Cavaliero: John Cowper Powys and the Aether
Free Afternoon (Committee Meeting)
4.00 Annual General Meeting
8.00 Reading from the poems of Gerard Casey’s Echoes and Mary Casey’s The Clear Shadow. Introduced by Glen Cavaliero and read by Neil Curry

Tuesday 24 August

Breakfast and Departure