Author Archives: Ples Singsing

By Phil Fitzpatrick Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG Attitude, 28 august 2011 THE WRITERS’ WORKSHOP in Port Moresby sponsored by PNG Attitude and the PNG Post Courier and hosted by the Australian High Commission is not far off now and the time seems ripe to float a few ideas. The grand theme of this firstContinue reading “Some ideas on strengthening PNG literature”

Michael Dom For the Gordon Secondary School Kokoda trekkers, September 1996 It’s tough, bloody hard work Climbing mountains Any kind of mountain Whether it be Maguli Range And the Golden Staircase Or a mountain of homework But once you’re at the top It’s a fantastic feeling And a magnificent view It’s a long road we’reContinue reading “A Kokoda experience”

Michael Dom Gordon Secondary School graduation poem for Year 12’s November 1996 At the end of Grade Twelve Two years seems Just as long a time as four And the memories just as sweet The days went by In periods long and short Interesting and exciting Boring and dreary Sleepy or alert            And we learnedContinue reading “See you at the crossroads”

Ples Singsing Masterminds “The Ples Singsing blog is created to encourage and facilitate this process to “re-thing and reclaim” our own stories, poetry and drama. Here we may interact with each other through our writing, in literature which expresses what it means to us to be Papua Niuginian”. Re-thing and reclaim our own approaches toContinue reading “Ples Singsing welcomes PNG writers and poets”

By Caroline Evari PORT MORESBY – The statement, ‘PNG does not have a reading culture’, kept popping up among authors and publishers gathered at the National Library during the National Book Fair in October 2019. “What’s the point of writing and publishing books, if people are not reading them,” asked Professor Steven Winduo during theContinue reading “Let’s give PNG a reading culture”