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, 27 November 2020

A Quilt for All Seasons

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Maria finished this radiant quilt today. I love it!

Christopher King: An Evangelist for Greek Demotic Music

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From Athens Insider: https://www.athensinsider.com/christopher-king-an-evangelist-for-greek-demotic-music/

Saturday, 21 November 2020

AA Survey, Email

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The AA*, Survey Questionnaire email, 20 November 2020 Thanks, AA, but what did you say? “We know you’re no longer with us, ...

The Ethiopian Crisis. Tigray Conflict.

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Inside the conflict bringing Ethiopia to crisis, PBS News Hour Ethiopia Crisis: High stakes for Africa - Could the battle for Tigray end up ...

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Sappho's Leap

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I write at some length about Sappho's supposed (apocryphal) suicide leap in my book, The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History...

Czech Books You Must Read

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From Radio Prague International: https://english.radio.cz/czech-books-you-must-read-8506310

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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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