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John Cowper Powys
‘Happy 150th to John Cowper Powys. What a remarkable writer from a remarkable family.
His monumental, immersive, cosmi-comic novels have been great companions to me on life's road - reminding me that everything is stranger, absurder, and more sublime than it may at first appear’.
— Kevan Manwaring
‘I read A Glastonbury Romance when I was 16 and it changed my life’.
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— The Reverend Richard Coles (quoted 29 Sep 2022 on BBC R3 Arts & Ideas)
‘I recall with great clarity the first time I encountered Powys, which was through Wolf Solent: I had never heard of either, which was shameful as I attended the same Cambridge college as him and he is the only great novelist Corpus has ever produced.
I was lent the book to pass a long train journey from Scotland to London and from the very first paragraph I was gripped. I read it in one sitting, sitting up into the night once I returned home to finish it. It embodies all Powys’s greatest characteristics: his profo