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Yes it's been snowing
It might almost be Flanders or Greece (I mean the Pindus mountains in February) :
I'm beginning to wonder if I'll make it to my own book-signing at Waterstones tomorrow.
My writing desk:
My writing desk:
Friday, 3 December 2010
Five Poems by Jim Potts
I'd quite forgotten that these five poems were published in a Swedish literary journal, and online.
It's always a surprise when you come across your own work when surfing the net!
The same enterprising Stockholm (and international) publishing house published my book "Corfu Blues"
(nb some of the information included in the link is over four years out of date).
There's some more poems I'd forgotten about at the end of this link too.
It's always a surprise when you come across your own work when surfing the net!
The same enterprising Stockholm (and international) publishing house published my book "Corfu Blues"
(nb some of the information included in the link is over four years out of date).
There's some more poems I'd forgotten about at the end of this link too.
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Sail Away with Brownie and Sonny
I've just been reminded (by Michael Gray on his blog, Bob Dylan Encyclopedia) that Brownie McGhee would have been 95 years old on November 30. He was born in 1915.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee recorded a moving version of Randy Newman's deeply ironical song Sail Away
Is that a thumb piano at the beginning of the Sonny and Brownie version (NB no longer on YouTube) and at the end? A brilliant and subtle way to link Africa with America and to represent the slave-ship's ocean crossing- and the crossing of musical and cultural traditions.
Good it to hear it again, as I watch the snow falling outside my window.
It's from the outstanding album "Sonny and Brownie", which also includes their version of one of my favourite soul songs, Bring it on home to me, (other memorable versions are by Sam Cooke, The Animals etc).
White Boy Lost in the Blues
One of their swinging oldies, Mean Ole Frisco
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee recorded a moving version of Randy Newman's deeply ironical song Sail Away
Is that a thumb piano at the beginning of the Sonny and Brownie version (NB no longer on YouTube) and at the end? A brilliant and subtle way to link Africa with America and to represent the slave-ship's ocean crossing- and the crossing of musical and cultural traditions.
Good it to hear it again, as I watch the snow falling outside my window.
It's from the outstanding album "Sonny and Brownie", which also includes their version of one of my favourite soul songs, Bring it on home to me, (other memorable versions are by Sam Cooke, The Animals etc).
White Boy Lost in the Blues
One of their swinging oldies, Mean Ole Frisco
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Britain's Greatest Living Poets
My votes go to:
Inspecting Lord Byron's faded initials inscribed on a fallen column at Delphi (Tony Harrison seated).
Bagehot on Britain's Students
For an interesting piece on the topic of student protests, see Bagehot
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