In 1996, a British student, Daniel Wilson, wrote to the government of Kiribati applying for the post of poet laureate. Although they had never had a poet laureate previously, they offered him the position. However, when he arrived, the islanders did not like the publicity he brought and he had to leave.
(from the Guardian)
Interesting Blog. Kiribati is beautiful.
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This is a short blog. You should have gone more into detail about how it all started and ended, there's more of a story there...
ReplyDeleteWish this story had the details into how he got there from concept to leaving the island and his thoughts afterwards.
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