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, 15 May 2020

A Lecture by Dr. Evita Arapoglou

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Three books from my library (hence my interest in the subject). Below, some screen shots taken during the outstanding Zoom lec...

Simon Armitage: It Ain't What You Do It's What It Does To You

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Read the poem via the link before: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/24K5-GLP?dm_i=24K5,6UXT6,TZKCTJ,RILYE,1 Watch and listen here: Si...

Is fishing allowed in lockdown?

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From Metro "Is fishing allowed in lockdown? According to the UK Government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy, which is laid out in a...

Dolmen Burial Chamber, Western France

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Photos: JP
Thursday, 14 May 2020

Guys and Dolls: Installation Art or Playful Pranks? Four Puzzling Dorset photographs.

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Two strange, rather disturbing subjects I photographed in recent years. My publisher has asked me about the backstories. I have no idea. C...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

In Sombre Mood on Maiden Castle (Alfred Schnittke and Duke Ellington)

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Listening to Alfred Schnittke, Hymns 3 and 4 (walking, with iPod) Alfred Schnittke. Hymn 3: Lento Alfred Schnittke Hymn № 4 ...
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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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