Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PORT TALBOT, Wales, April 15 (UPI) -- The British Millennium Commission has given Welsh poet Karl Beer a $4,500 grant to get drunk and write a book about the experience. "Some of the stuff is going to be quite shocking," Beer, 27, said of his project in Thursday's Times of London. Advertisement "My work is about going out and getting completely wrecked, but it is aimed at the 18 to 30 age group and I'm hoping to make people laugh," he said. Beer's grant from the London-based foundation that doles out lottery funds has angered some fellow Welshmen. Gerald Harris, chairman of the Chamber of Trade in Beer's hometown of Port Talbot, Wales, called the grant a "waste," adding that a grant for a sports pavilion had been cut by $150,000. A Millennium Commission official defended the grant saying, "Mr. Beer's project was to work with excluded groups in the community including young offenders and that is what we are funding him for."
