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

Monday, 29 June 2020

Michael Rosen Interview, BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, 29 June, 2020

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Michael Rosen on the NHS, seven weeks on a ventilator, and his gradual recovery from Covid-19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kgn...

Friday, 26 June 2020

The Friendly Seal, Weymouth

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A misty morning, a great swim and and a heartwarming encounter! The seal sidled up to make friends with the wo...

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Swimming with a Seal, Weymouth

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Overcombe Bay, Weymouth, this morning. What to do if you encounter a seal: https://www.outdoorswimmingsociet...

John Mackie, Castle Cary and Somerset Dialect Poems, 1925

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Four recent tweets: https://twitter.com/DorsetWriter/status/1275817344816873476 https://twitter.com/DorsetWriter/status/12758187...

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Greek Embroidery at the Ashmolean Museum: Mediterranean Threads, Online, Interactive Exhibition

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I really wanted to see this exhibition, The Ashmolean has put it online as an interactive exhibition: Mediterranean Threads, 18th- and 19...

Friday, 19 June 2020

Watching the seal at Weymouth

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Photo of the seal at Overcombe Bay, near the Oasis Cafe, Weymouth, 18th June, by Idris Martin (Facebook, copyright). https://www.fa...

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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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