Some Modern Poetry from the Solomon Islands | 
pickThis is such a tiny little volume that I almost feel like I cheated, but it does contain #ownvoices poetry from the #SolomonIslands. Is it good poetry? I don‘t really know, as I‘m not a poetry reader, but it‘s interesting and gave me a little flavor of what people from there might think about. There are also 2 poems in both pidgin and English, which I really liked.
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Librarybelle I don‘t read a lot of poetry either, but this one sounds very interesting with the look at the thoughts of residents. 11mo
squirrelbrain Have you nearly finished this challenge already?! 🤣 11mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Ha! Not even close! But since I don‘t know if we‘ll suddenly get an offer and be moving in a month or two, I want to take advantage of having all the Oceania books at this library system. I won‘t have this kind of access in Oregon! So yeah, I‘m definitely pushing hard on this challenge. 11mo
squirrelbrain Ah yes, good thinking! And I‘m glad you‘re still there so that I got two books too, they‘re really not that easy to find over here. 11mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain I thought that might be the case! I‘m really lucky that the library here is so good. The whole state is connected within the system, so most of the books I‘ll be using for this challenge will be from Honolulu. And they just send them over from another island, no fee! It‘s amazing. 11mo
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