Corfu Blues and Global Views

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

Friday, 27 August 2010

Selective Memories (Camping on Corfu and Mallorca)

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It's funny how often I tell people how much I used to love camping. You can't win, on Corfu or Mallorca.
Thursday, 26 August 2010

Some of these days

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Charlie Patton This version sounds new to me (although I have it on CD). I wonder if Jean-Paul Sartre would have liked it (cf his no...

Fixin' to Die, Bukka White

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Another blues classic, Bukka White's Fixin' to Die And a version from my personal Parchman Farm ! An alternative version...

Joe Brown at AgiotFest, Saturday Night, 28 August

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Joe Brown He's seen it all! Back to the 60s!

I can't be satisfied (Muddy Waters)

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Muddy 1 Muddy 2 Muddy 3 Muddy 4  Rolling Stones Are you satisfied now? If not, try this Delta field recording (somewhere near Sto...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010

The Poetry of Mon Repos Beach, Corfu

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Mon Repos Beach (entry fee one Euro fifty cents) hasn't changed much since the 1960s (or maybe the 30s!). The sand certainly hasn't ...
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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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