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Grand-daughter’s story of a pioneering pastor

PHILIP FITZPATRICK – posted on PNG Attitude blog Mugang Mugarewec Bitengere- A Pioneer Missionary to the Highlands of New Guinea by Gabby Mugang, Marapa Publications, Waigani, 2018, K100 from the author at mbcpng@gmail.com TUMBY BAY – The early Lutheran missionaries in the highlands relied very heavily on their Papua New Guinean pastors and evangelists to spread theirContinue reading “Grand-daughter’s story of a pioneering pastor”

Tramontina

By Dr. Andrew Moutu You didn’t fall out of the skies You came from somewhere on the ground-from a house or a store. Made with human hands To replace and extend the limits of human hands. You are retrieved and taken in from the sides. And come into the center. Where the mind and theContinue reading “Tramontina”

Poetry reviews: Lamentations on the joy of youth

MICHAEL DOM Cry My Beloved Country, Collection of Poems and Prose 1998 – 2018, Telly Orekavala, JDT Publishing, Port Moresby, February 2019, ISBN-13: 978-1797-08-275-2 Kindle Direct Publishing, USA, 76pp. Available on Amazon $3.59 THERE are many different ways to interpret a collection of poems and prose, and so writing about such a book, for me,Continue reading “Poetry reviews: Lamentations on the joy of youth”

Entry Forms for the Tingting Bilong Mi 2022 Essay Competition

Ples Singsing Writers & Associates with the support of the Commonwealth Foundation brings Papua Niuginian writers the second of our annual essay writing competitions ENTRY FORMS are available here.

In pursuit of Melanesian jurisprudence

By DAVID GONOL – posted on the National PAPUA new Guinea is truly a unique country in the world. It is one of the most diverse countries in the world in terms of cultures and languages. I always unashamedly take huge pride in this beautiful and unique country.America may be the world leader in military,Continue reading “In pursuit of Melanesian jurisprudence”

Poetry reviews: persistent & emerging voices

Raymond Sigimet’s sparks of brilliance now and then set the page ablaze MICHAEL DOM Mirror On The Wall: selected poems, short stories and expositions by Raymond Muso Sigimet. JDT Publications, Port Moresby, 2018. 92 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1724-22-495-8. Amazon Books, paperback $7.41 A Window To My House: Collection of Poems by Raymond Muso Sigimet. JDT Publications,Continue reading “Poetry reviews: persistent & emerging voices”

God’s last stopping place. But what of Nutu?

“But when they came they hid you in the Book / And said you weren’t from around this place / We searched ’til we had nowhere else to look…” GREGORY BABLIS – posted on PNG Attitude blog ORO – I wrote this sonnet as I thought about some of the ideas arising from my interviewsContinue reading “God’s last stopping place. But what of Nutu?”

Vance Solmien laments for the land, for home and family

A poem entered in the Mini-Poetry 2022 Competition for World Environment Day Poem by Vance Solmien My Home, My Family What has happened to my home and my family? My heart is troubled and my soul laments in anguish and sorrow. My land is in bitter sorrow and mourning, In losing her beloved sons andContinue reading “Vance Solmien laments for the land, for home and family”

Rochelle Bokalen reminds us to love our Mama Graun

A poem entered in the Mini-Poetry 2022 Competition for World Environment Day Poem by Rochelle-Rhiannon Bokalen Mama Graun This place I live in Is a land ever green Blanketed with blue waters From which many islands adrift. From the highlands to the islands We embrace our tropical forests With towering trees, looming over the horizonsContinue reading “Rochelle Bokalen reminds us to love our Mama Graun”

Sagat Raings reminds us to praise God for this unique land

A poem entered in the Mini-Poetry 2022 Competition for World Environment Day Sagat Raings poem The land is unique Build your house, build your town, build your city Came fall the woodlands to a great city The wind swept the leaves making them speak The wind swept the grasses making them sing The land isContinue reading “Sagat Raings reminds us to praise God for this unique land”