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

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Homeric Hymn to Pan

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Greek Text "Only at evening, as he returns from the chase, he sounds his note, playing sweet and low on his pipes of reed: not even ...

Building Stonehenge

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Another experiment - Stonehenge wasn't so hard to build after all, archaeologists discover, The Telegraph

IMF, EU, Greece: Debt Relief

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IMF tells EU it must give Greece unconditional debt relief  The Guardian, Larry Elliott

Fire-Walkers in Greece (ΑΝΑΣΤΕΝΑΡΙΑ-ΑΝΑΣΤΕΝΑΡΗΔΕΣ)

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From Greek Reporter, thanks to Chris King for the link We celebrated without walking on fire (but I have seen the rituals of the Anasten...
Monday, 23 May 2016

Homeric Hymn to The Mother of the Gods - Howling Wolves and Wailing Pipes!

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μητέρα μοι πάντων τε θεῶν πάντων τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ὕμνει , Μοῦσα λίγεια , Διὸς θυγάτηρ μεγάλοιο , ᾗ κροτάλων τυπάνων τ᾽ ἰαχὴ σύ...
Sunday, 22 May 2016

At the Corfu Pinakothiki (Picture Gallery)

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At the Municipal Gallery of Corfu: Damaskinos Michael, The Stoning of St Peter, c 1591 Damaskinos Michael, Decapitation of Joh...
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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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