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

Friday, 16 December 2016

Lalibela. Ethiopia: Ethiopian Art & Architecture

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Photos of Ethiopia on Facebook Sample from Ethiopian Art & Architecture , a wonderful shot (name of photographer?): Some of my...

Thursday, 15 December 2016

On Jimi Hendrix and 50 Years of 'Hey Joe' (The Economist)

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From Prospero, The Economist 'Hey Joe' was released on December 16th 1966. I was lucky enough to be at the Marquee Club for Ji...

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Sweden - Lucia, The Bearer of Light

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About the Swedish Lucia tradition "Into our dark house she comes, bearing lighted candles, Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia". Last...

Even in Sweden - Hospital Emergency Departments, Waiting Times Too Long

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From Svenska Dagbladet - Väntetiderna växer på Södersjukhuset: "Är extremt" "Sällan har akutmottagningarna på Stockholms...

Greece and the IMF: The IMF is Not Asking Greece for More Austerity; Clarification

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An important clarification from the IMF: From iMF Direct, Maurice Obstfield and Poul M. Thomsen - "The IMF is being criticized fo...

Greece: Zakynthos, An Unbelievable Story; Ζάκυνθος: Η απίστευτη ιστορία...

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A complicated court case concerning the purchase of 14,500 stremmata of disputed land on Zakynthos - article in Greek, by Φώτης Κόλλιας, ...

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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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