William Barnes, The Sound of William Barnes' Dorset Dialect Poems

Have you ever wondered how the poems of William Barnes might have sounded in Dorset, in his day?

The University of Adelaide, Australia, has the answer:

First, a free ebook

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/barnes-vol-1/barnes-vol-1-ebook.pdf

Second, the recordings

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/barnes-vol-1/recordings/

With thanks to The William Barnes Society Newsletter, November 2013, for the links and information.

Greece, Mortgage Debts and the Lifting of the Ban on Bank Foreclosures/Auctions of Primary Residences

The EC/Troika position

The Greek Government position

Apparently...

It reads rather differently in the Greek edition.

EnetEnglish

"Simon O'Connor...spokesman for European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn, ...asked about the listing of a ban on home repossessions banks...,said that the government needed to find ways to protect the most financially vulnerable families.

But an agreement on the issue must leave no room for abuse by people with the means to pay the banks but who are refusing to do so, as he suggested is now the case".

30,000 property owners taking advantage of foreclosure ban

There is a petition circulating on the internet

Lifting of ban to go ahead

"New rules on home foreclosures even without troika approval, says minister - Greece will pass legislation lifting a ban on home foreclosures even if it fails to reach an agreement with the troika on the content of the new law, Deputy Development Minister Thanasis Skordas said on Monday".

Other issues

Eric Ravilious, Artist (1903 – 1942)

New book by Alan Powers

Some images (including Dorset)

V and A

James Russell

Ravilious, Wood Engravings

Bridport Arts Centre talk (shame I wasn't here)

Ravilious' Chalk Horse

More information (from the publisher):

"More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of pre-war and early wartime England. This new book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the artist's work in all media - watercolour, illustration, printmaking, graphic design, textiles and ceramics - and firmly positions Ravilious as a major figure in the history of early 20th-century British art.

In an accessible and engaging text, copiously illustrated with reproductions of work drawn from a range of sources, Alan Powers discusses the part Ravilious' work played in creating an English style, positioned between tradition and modernism, and borrowing from naive and popular art of the past. The book analyses Ravilious' different spheres of activity in turn, covering his education and formative influences, his mural painting, his printmaking and illustration, his work as leader in forming a new style of watercolour painting between the wars and his final period as an official War Artist. In a career curtailed by an early death, Ravilious also played a significant role as a designer; Powers argues that Ravilious showed how decoration and historical reference could find a place in the reform of the applied arts whilst simultaneously renewing a sense of national identity".

The High Street (tygertale blog)

Guardian article, 2011

Telegraph Article

Strawberry Nets

Byzantium (BBC)

Clip from new BBC series  "Byzantium: A Tale of Three Cities"

Episode 1 of 3 (BBC iPlayer)

Programme Information:

"Series in which historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces the sacred history of Istanbul. Known as the 'city of the world's desire', it's a place that has been the focus of passion for believers of three different faiths - Paganism, Christianity and Islam - and for nearly 3,000 years its streets have been the battleground for some of the fiercest political and religious conflicts in history.

In the first episode Montefiore uncovers the city's ancient Greek roots, maps its transformation into the imperial capital of a Christian empire by Emperor Constantine the Great and reveals how ecclesiastical clashes forced Eastern and Western Churches apart".

Byzantium in Corfu: The Church of St Jason and St Sosipater

Art and Poetry; Tim Cumming, Dorset Paintings

From The Arts Desk

Art and poetry: the image makers, by Tim Cumming

A poet and artist talks to Annie Freud and Bobby Parker about the art of the word.

Tim Cumming, Dorset Paintings

The painting I really like is "From Pilsdon Pen" (gouache on paper) 42 x 59cm

This Sladers Yard event looks good!

Danebury Ring, A Film Poem

Tsarouchis and Ghika Paintings; Greek Art at Auction

Holding up well at auction

City On a Hill, Ghika

(Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika’s “City on a Hill,” a hymn to the geometry of the Greek landscape from the artist’s mature period in the 1960s, which fetched 146,500 pounds, or 175,800 euros; Kathimerini).

Bonhams Greek Art Sales (Theofilos etc)

The Greek Sale, 27 November, 2013