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, 13 September 2021

Grapevines in the Village

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Alas not there to harvest the bountiful crop. Thanks for the photos, Fantina.

Mikis Theodorakis, IM

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I have just remembered a poem I wrote in Addis Ababa in July 1974, published in Corfu Blues (the book) in 2006.

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Wednesday, 25 August 2021

USA, Roadtrip

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A few images from my grandson's road trip across the USA. Just finished. He shared these photos:

Thursday, 19 August 2021

Martin Parr, West Bay. Seaside Photographs. Think of England.

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The influential photographs of Martin Parr. " West Bay was shot in the small Dorset seaside town, in the Summer of 1996. The series ...

Tuesday, 17 August 2021

St. George, Portland, Dorset. "Primitive Georgian". Gabriel Max.

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Returning from Portland Bill yesterday, I decided to kook inside the redundant church of St. George. I was intrigued by this print, hangin...

Monday, 16 August 2021

Paul Nash, documentary film, Landscape from a Dream

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Watch: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-landscape-from-a-dream-1978-online A film profile of Paul Nash, who was fascinated by the...

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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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