Jim Potts

Jim Potts is the author of the following books:

"Words on the table", Colenso Books, November 2021 (over 200 poems - "It's a rich ride!" Michael Rosen)

"This Spinning World, Forty-Three Stories From Far And Wide", Colenso Books, September 2019

"Reading the signs", Colenso Books, February 2020 (nature and environmental/ecological poems)

"The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History", Signal Books, Oxford and OUP, USA, 2010

"Corfu Blues, Poems and Songs Inspired by Greece and the Balkans, 1967-2005",

Ars Interpres Publications, 2006

Some reviews of The Ionian Islands and Epirus:

"He examines perceptions and preconceived ideas (as well as their historical development up until the present day), Greek Nationalism as well as the chauvinism of foreigners. This presentation makes the book more interesting than a strictly historical narrative. The style is fluent, compact, enjoyable and understandable, and the author exhibits a subtle sense of humour. The author's love for the place and the people is obvious, but he also has an honest, open and evenly directed critical attitude." -- To Zagori Mas

"An important book that will kindle new research and thinking on the political and literary history of the region." --Times Literary Supplement

"If evidence is required that Greece can enchant, enthral and engage, then Briton Jim Potts' book is just that... This little gem of a book will provide the discerning traveller with something grossly lacking from other tourist guides: a real cultural history with which he or she can contextualise the wonderful experience that is the Ionian Islands and Epirus." --Athens News

Other books by Jim Potts:

"16 Poems" (bilingual, English and Czech), James Potts, Prague, Kohacek and Trnka, October 1989

"The Attempted Subversion of Albania and 'Roll-Back' of Soviet Power; Philby's Betrayal; the Corfu Connection in 1949", Proceedings of the 10th International Panionian Conference, vol. 5. 2018 (offprint)

Jim is co-editor of:

"Dorset Voices, A Collection of new prose, poetry and photographs", Roving Press, 2012

"Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman", Arcadia Books, London, 2003

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Jim has contributed chapters to:

"Greece and Britain Since 1945", ed. David Wills, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2nd edition, 2014

"The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture", ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014

"Literatures of War", ed. Eve Patten and Richard Pine, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

"The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945-1955", ed. Peter Mackridge and David Ricks, Routledge, 2018

"Travel, Tourism and Identity, Culture and Civilization Volume 7", ed. Gabriel R. Ricci, Transaction Publishers, 2015

Jim contributed forty poems to "The Covid Years, a composite journal", ed. Anthony Hirst, Colenso Books, 2023

Jim has contributed prefaces to:

"Literary Links, Celebrating the Literary Relationship Between Australia and Britain", Roslyn Russell, Allen and Unwin, Sydney and London, 1997

"British Painting 1800-1990 in Australian and New Zealand Public Collections"

Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1997.