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

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Closely Observed Hrabal (Bohumil Hrabal)

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Bohumil Hrabal (right), at my Prague Apartment, c. 1987 Bohumil Hrabal , 1914-1997 On Hrabal  (Wikipedia) Essay on Hrabal Closely Obs...

Hungarian Blues

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K. Escher, 1933

ETHIOPIA: Images of the Ethiopian Revolution; Zamacha Campaign, 1974

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My journalist daughter found the following old slides of interest, when I projected a selection on the wall. I have now scanned a few of t...
Friday, 20 January 2012

The Late Johnny Otis, Greek King of Rock 'n' Roll...and Etta James, Queen of Soul

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Johnny Otis has died, aged 90. Johnny Otis Show 1950s episode, link courtesy of  Mojo Magazine Johnny Otis profile See my posting ...

English Law, Greek Law?

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Athens News reports  
Thursday, 19 January 2012

Edward Lear lived here...Corfu 2012

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Edward Lear lived here (well, near here)... Condi Terrace (destroyed WWII): photo reproduced from   Edward Lear, The Corfu Years and he...
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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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