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 December 2013

Greece: New Property Tax Approved; Tax System

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Kathimerini report More (and on bank foreclosure parameters and criteria) More (in Greek) «Προστατεύει όλους εκείνους τους δανειολήπ...

Friday, 20 December 2013

On H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): Hermes; Helen; Freud; Corfu; Writing-On-The-Wall; Classical Greek Literature

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From someLANDSCAPES blog (Plinius aka Andrew Ray) Helen in Egypt , H.D. reads H.D. had strange visions (hallucinations,"writing...

West Dorset: Joint Local Planning Issues; Exploratory Meeting; Well-Timed Christmas Messages!

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Confusing reports, Joint Local Plan, and statements NB Exploratory Meeting January 22, 2014 "Although open to the public, the meet...

UTOPIA, John Pilger's Australian Dystopia; Stewart Gaykamangu's Silent Night in East Arnhem Land dialect of Yolngu Matha

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Documentary film , register on ITV Player to watch (29 days left) "Award-winning director John Pilger presents a documentary detaili...

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Romanians, "Ratcheting Up the Rhetoric" Cartoon; Benefits Street; Immigrants

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The Times featured a graphic cartoon by Peter Brookes today (18 December), tweeted here Order a copy here Cartoonists galleries Havi...

Imagining Alexandria (thanks to Corfu), Poems by Louis De Bernières

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"De Bernières was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavaf...

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Jim Potts

Jim: 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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