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Wednesday 25 December 2013

Χρόνια πολλά



Χρόνια πολλά! from England.

Traditional Corfiot Carol

Carol sung outside Zisimos Cafe, Corfu, 2012

A pop song by Sakis Rouvas (born Mandouki, Corfu)


Mikis Theodorakis is in hospital in Athens. Perastika! Χρόνια πολλά!


To Vima

Mikis for President?

In the UK, floods and power cuts...

Greece: The forthcoming EU Presidency

Hard Truths, Home Truths?
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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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