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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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Saturday, 15 December 2012

This land is your land, this land is my land

Singing Woody Guthrie in Washington DC (both of them born in the USA)









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Gun Control in the USA


Read Lexington, The Economist, for a sane and rational view.


Update, BBC News, January 9, 2013

Update, BBC News, January 27, 2013
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Papa Pete, a Corfu Bluesman on the Blues


A good posting!
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Friday, 14 December 2012

Some Dorset images, before the US trip







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Weymouth Harbour Repair Works

Dorset Echo article

Has repair work started in earnest? The BBC news item of a few hours ago seems to have disappeared already.

Have the recent harbourside floods caused a further delay?
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Thinking of Corfu, in Washington DC




Sgouros painting of Corfu, in Washington DC.

Enjoyed a good spanokopita in Zorba's place in Dupont Circle!
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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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