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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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REBETIKO READER, SOAS (University of London). See my rebetika poems in chapter 26 (originally Chapter 19)

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Friday 27 September 2013

Greece Updates



The New Yorker

Social Security, thorny problems (Kathimerini)

To Vima

Monitoring racist violence

Banks and bad loans

Unchartered waters (Helena Smith, The Observer)

Prosecutor's Report (EnetEnglish)

New anti-Racism law? (Reuters)

Nikos Dendias


and some sad news for Corfiots

Zisimos (Corfu) closing 30 September

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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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