The New Dorset County Museum. William Barnes display.

 A preview today. A magnificent new museum!

Very strong on Thomas Hardy, rather thin on William Barnes.

On Llewelyn Powys, for the Dorset Echo Centenary

 Published in the Dorset Echo today.

Online version:

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19327250.praise-great-dorset-writer-llewelyn-powys/

Bob Dylan is 80

 

Izzy Young: "Hats off to Bob!"

Izzy Young organised Bob's first New York concert on 4th November 1961

I first heard Bob singing 'Blowing in the wind' and some other songs in the BBC TV play,

Madhouse on Castle Street, on 13th January, 1963. He made a lasting impression.

The BBC wiped the videotape, This audio recording remains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEKB7G6MTb4

I was soon trying to learn his songs.

Bob learnt a lot from the Beat writers.

Asprangeloi, Zagori, July 1943. Dovra. Ασπράγγελοι. The burning of a martyric village.

 

Asprangeloi Burning, 15 July, 1943.

 Photograph from a Facebook posting on Zagori Cultural Events, by Vassilios Cholevas.

 His commentary follows (he indicated that it could be shared).

 15 Ιουλίου 1943. Η πυρπόληση των Ασπραγγέλων.

Γερμανοί στρατιώτες των "ορεινών κυνηγών" παρακολουθούν την πυρπόληση ενός ελληνικού χωριού κοντά στα Γιάννενα.

"Gebirgsjäger in den Bergen Griechenland bei Ioannina" αναφέρεται.

Εκ πρώτης όψεως σαν να βλέπω να καίγεται το μαρτυρικό χωριό των Ασπραγγέλων, η Δοβρά 

(τελικά είναι όντως η πυρπόληση των Ασπραγγέλων) ...

Το πιο πιθανόν να πρόκειται για τους εγκληματίες της 1ης Ορεινής Μεραρχίας της Βέρμαχτ, γνωστής ως "Εντελβάϊς", υπεύθυνους για δεκάδες πυρπολήσεις και καταστροφές χωριών στην Ήπειρο και για χιλιάδες δολοφονίες αμάχων!!

Η φωτογραφία προέρχεται από γερμανό στρατιώτη και δημοπρατήθηκε πρόσφατα.

Vassilios Cholevas

My photo above

From a poem by Frixos Tziovas:

See also my blog posting from 2017:

https://corfublues.blogspot.com/search?q=Asprangeloi

A Photo from a Cambridge College

 

My grandson's college, just received. It looks very quiet - but the essay deadlines keep on coming!

Rudolf Fila, 1932-2015

 

Rudolf Fila, artist

Past articles from the internet:

http://cead.space/Detail/people/31

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Fila

https://nitrianskagaleria.sk/en/nitrianska-proveniencia/rudolf-fila/

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20056224/painter-art-teacher-rudolf-fila-dies.html

The Manchester Guardian. A Century Ago

My paternal grandfather lived to see the celebration of the centenary of The Manchester Guardian in 1921. The Guardian has been celebrating the beginning of its third century in recent days.

Cartoon by Karel Čapek

I wonder if my grandfather would have agreed with Anthony Burgess, who was born in 1917, only five years before my grandfather died? I think not. He was far too loyal, having worked for the newspaper for most of his life, but he might not have approved of the newspaper's change of name or transfer to London..

"At the time of my birth, Manchester was a great city, Cottonopolis, the mother of liberalism and the cradle of the entire industrial system. It had the greatest newspaper in the world, meaning the only independent one. The Manchester Guardian debased itself when it grew ashamed of its city of origin: a superb liberal organ was turned into an irritable rag dedicated...to the wrong kind of radicalism." Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, 1987.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yeQ9wr5SrmgC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Anthony+Burgess,+at+the+time+of+my+birth,+Manchester+was+a+great+city&source=bl&ots=S-PlUCsY7d&sig=ACfU3U3YYlggN0z3cyGf2m7ZGfqoCsEvtw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiq5dWetbLwAhWhoFwKHSRGAbgQ6AEwCXoECAYQAw#v=onepage&q=Anthony%20Burgess%2C%20at%20the%20time%20of%20my%20birth%2C%20Manchester%20was%20a%20great%20city&f=false

Could the Guardian have resisted the magnetic pull of the metropolis?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2021/may/06/guardian-200-magnetic-pull-metropolis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I have to admit that The Guardian is only one of many national and international papers that I look at on most days.

A Ringstead Evening, Dorset

 

We had Ringstead beach to ourselves. 

A magical evening.

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The Outer Hebrides. Hebridean Symphony

 

I still love this poem by Eva Ström.

This is my English version which appeared in Swedish Reflections and Reading the signs.

The Outer Hebrides (from the Swedish of Eva Ström)

 

 If it’s the case that you long for the Outer Hebrides

or somewhere else, where you have the sea in front of you

and Europe behind you

and where the islands are only a thin film of rain . . .

If it’s the case, that you’re yearning for these islands

or other islands, of comparable unimportance . . .

If it’s the case that you’re worn out with writing Encyclopaedias

and reading them from A to Z . . .

If you’ve absorbed all the knowledge that there is to be acquired

about the Jarrah forests and the Druids,

about Tantalus on to the Tatras . . .

And if it’s the case that the azaleas are fading

that their swollen pink petals have already dried

and dropped to the ground

and nothing is left of their hardiness,

their relationship to Ericacea, the heather on the moor —

hot-house flower, green-house flower . . .

If it’s the case that you sense inside you the end is coming,

like a crack, or an idea emerging . . .

If it’s the case that you long to be changed while you travel,

just as unripe fruit is changed as it travels

in the cargo-hold, beneath the Southern Cross,

a hull’s-width away from the water . . .

If that’s the case and there’s no other option —

if that’s how it is —

you’ve already turned off the lights in the house:

you’re on your way.

 

I've only recently discovered Granville Bantock's Hebridean Symphony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2dfj45wSYU

When travel is permitted, I'll be on my way!

A Greek Song

 

Αλίκη Καγιαλόγλου - Τη Λένε Αλίκη

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XbturZWtrI

Lawrence Durrell and Corfu. The Herald, April 2021, International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Read the special April Corfu Issue of The Herald:

https://www.lawrencedurrell.org/

Full pdf issue

Lawrence Durrell reads from Prospero's Cell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49w3-wVg1Ko