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, 15 August 2018

Dorchester: plan for new covered market at Charles Street site

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From Dorset Echo: Dorchester's £2m plan for new covered market and car park at Charles Street site, Dorset Echo 23 new parking spac...

Jim's Blues ("Just One More Time"); Vintage Down-Home Blues

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Four recent postings, in case you missed the videos on YouTube! Fixin' to Die Blues Mississippi Juke-Joint Blues, Clarksdale Hi...

Lament from Epirus, Christopher King: Greek edition planned, Ηπειρώτικο μοιρολόι , DOMA Books, Athens, ΔΩΜΑ

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See DOMA Books, Athens, website https://www.domabooks.gr/lament-from-epirus/ Ηπειρώτικο μοιρολόι Στην παρά...

South Street Bluesman and Skeleton Drummer: Rob Berry; Dorchester, Dorset

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Two things seen in Dorchester today: The first beat the blues (and would put many guitar-picking buskers and most of the competition t...

Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Ethiopia requests emperor's lock of hair; Emperor Tewodros

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From The Guardian See previous posting: Ethiopia - The Battle of Magdala at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Hydra, Greece: Brenda Chamberlain, A Rope of Vines, Journal from a Greek Island

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I am currently reading "A Rope of Vines". I knew little about Brenda Chamberlain, the Welsh poet, painter and writer. "Th...

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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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