A poet I fancy receiving greeting in country (8)
I believe the answer is:
ethiopia
'country' is the definition.
(Ethiopia is an example)
'a poet i fancy receiving greeting' is the wordplay.
'fancy' is an anagram indicator.
'receiving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'greeting' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting).
'a'+'poet'+'i'='apoeti'
'apoeti' with letters rearranged gives 'etopia'.
'etopia' going around 'hi' is 'ETHIOPIA'.
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for ethiopia that I've seen before include "Landlocked Afr. country" , "Country once known as Abyssinia" , "African state" , "Country formerly called Abyssinia" , "Strife-torn NE African country, capital Addis Ababa" .)