![]() This text is taught in Year 12 and it comes under the common theme of PROGRESS. ![]() * or pick your local equivalent: Langley, British Columbia Launceston, Tasmania Burbank, California Nancy in France Siegen in Germany, Bolzano in Italy, etc. Bula Vinaka Everyone, just a short discussion of the poem 'Reality' by Konai Helu Thaman. Which is a stylistic choice I personally find a bit irritating, but hey-ho. It’s all lower-case, btw, even place names and ‘i’. It’s OK, I’ve read far worse poetry, but I couldn’t get very excited about it. I would love to be able to say that this was one of those unexpected treats that make the whole exercise worthwhile… but it’s not. Tonga has a population of just 104,000, so picking a book from Tonga is like picking a book from Colchester - if Colchester* was a fairly poor country in the middle of nowhere with little literary tradition and English as a second language. I’ve read some underwhelming books from the Pacific for this exercise - which is no surprise, really. ![]() But I didn’t have a book for Tonga, so that’s fine. This was going to be my book for Kiribati for the Read The World challenge, but it turns out I misread the listing: the illustrator is from Kiribati, the poet is from Tonga. ![]()
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