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"When we had nothing
We had everything;
Now we have everything
We have nothing".
Attributed to a Corfiot.
Watch a British Pathe Newsreel from 1962 (thanks to Corfu Chronicles Blog)
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Music, Literature, the Visual Arts, Landscape, Current Affairs, Dorset, Greece. Global scope. RECENT BOOKS: WORDS ON THE TABLE (207 Poems), READING THE SIGNS (111 Poems), THIS SPINNING WORLD (43 stories). See Amazon author page for more. ResearchGate profile: www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Potts2 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHighway49/videos
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- Mandouki in 1963, and at Easter 1968
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Jim Potts
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- Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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