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

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Santorini, Crete and Zakynthos: Voted In Top Four Islands in Europe

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From Kathimerini On TripAdvisor poll Corfu not in Top Ten

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Bermuda: An Andrew Wyeth Watercolour Painting

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From The Royal Gazette A striking Bermuda watercolour by the lauded American artist Andrew Wyeth A profile at the time of his 80th bir...

Monday, 20 April 2015

USA: Forensic Hair Testimony; Evidence Flawed

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From The Washington Post "The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI fore...

Sunday, 19 April 2015

Corfu, Pink Palace: Rolf Potts Story, A Greek Romance - and other travel stories

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A writer I have only just discovered. From Rolf Potts' blog A Greek romance "At Corfu's Pink Palace, the ouzo flows, t...

Greece: Will Self on Greece; Henry Miller, Colossus of Maroussi, introduction

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Will Self's introduction to the second edition of Henry Miller's Colossus of Maroussi Introduction Click on "Kindle Edi...

Photography: Photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras; Photos by Patrick Joust; Stephen Dowling; Charlie Abiss

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From BBC News Magazine "Film photography was supposed to have been killed off by the digital era - but a committed band of enthusia...

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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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