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, 14 September 2014

Greece: Spyros Meletzis, Photographer

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On Partisan Photography Balafas and Meletzis Photographer of the Greek Resistance Spyros Meletzis, Vitsa, 1937 (detail) Br...

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Roots of Rock 'n' Roll: "Detroit Rocks", Montana Taylor (1929)

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This must be one of the first rock 'n' roll records: Montana Taylor, "Detroit Rocks", 1929

Alberta Blues; Mississippi Sheiks

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Alberta, Mississippi Sheiks Snooks Eaglin version Mississippi Sheiks, I've got blood in my eyes for you Bob Dylan version Miss...

Scotland Referendum; Washington Waits; Deutsche Bank Comments; Kathimerini on European Anxieties

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Washington waits and watches (Euronews). Deutsche Bank view (Herald, Scotland) Kathimerini: Scotland decides, Europe frets

Friday, 12 September 2014

"Dorset is the best place to retire"

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" Dorset is the best place to retire ...The best place for a long and happy retirement is Dorset, a study suggests". That was t...

Imaret, Yiannis Kalpouzos: Greek Novel Waiting For An English Translation

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Imaret - highly recommended by many Greek friends "Imaret: In the Shadow of the Clock Tower" Yiannis Kalpouzos 568pp....

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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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