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

Sunday, 9 January 2011

"Kerkyra, Kerkyra", George Katsaros, Rena Vlachopoulou

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A Greek editor, Yiannis Kalaitzoglou, once included this song about Corfu in an anthology of traditional Corfiot folk-songs! I translated ...

When you hear something different: Koop may not be a scoop, but...

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However eclectic one's musical tastes (I tend to identify myself as a somewhat obsessive bluesman with my head in the 1920s, but that...

Nick Papandreou's Weblog

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I've just discovered Nick Papandreou's weblog, which should be of interest to some readers.
Saturday, 8 January 2011

Keith Richards: what a life!

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I was surprised, but pleased, to read Boris Johnson's article suggesting that Keith Richards should receive the honour of a knightho...

On Scotland and Montenegro

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One can rely on The Economist to provoke discussion!
Friday, 7 January 2011

Bagehot on Cricket and British Culture

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I wish I'd been in Melbourne or Sydney !
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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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