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Publications


  

Non Fiction


2013    Transitions and Transformation: Literature, Politics, and Culture in Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2004     Introduction to Literature. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea.

Books of imaginative literature


2014        Land Echoes. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2012        Detwan How? Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2010        The Unpainted Mask. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2009        A Rower’s Song. Port Moresby: Manui Publishers.
2000    Hembemba: Rivers of the Forest. Suva & Port Moresby: Institute of Pacific Studies, USP & Language and Literature Department, UPNG. 2000.
1991        Lomoha I am, in Spirit's Voice I Call. Suva: South Pacific Creative Arts Society, 1991.

CHILDRENS’ BOOKS


2016        Muruk na Pato. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers
2016        Jupi and the Magic Feather. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers
2017     Lomo’ha in the Almond Forest. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers

Edited Volumes


2015        A Turning Point: Buimo Prison Writers. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers in Association with Bible Society of PNG.
2009   Reframing Knowledge: Cultural Knowledge and Practices in Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby: Melanesian and Pacific Studies, UPNG.
2005        Zia Writers of Waria: Raitim Laip Stori (with Sakarepe Kamene), Port Moresby: Melanesian and Pacific Studies.
1992-2004 Savannah Flames: Journal of Papua New Guinean Literature, Language and Culture. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea.
1997         The Contemporary Pacific (Special Issue). Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Perspectives from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu  (with Kathleen Barlow). Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii Press.
1990        Critical and Developmental Literacy (with Otto Nekitel and Sakarepe Kamene) Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press.

Journal Articles/Chapters in Books

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2017        Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: The First Wave, Oxford University History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950. Vol. 12. Edited by Coral Ann Howells, Paul Sharrad, Gerry Turcotte. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.499-510.
2016        Trobriand Tower of Babel. Radical Flame magazine. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
2015.      Blogging in PNG. Tweets from the Field: Ethnographic Update. . Ed. Forest Young et al. University of Hawaii, 2015.
2015        Customary Law is a Living Law, Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom: Themes from the Pacific Islands. ICHCAP-UNESCO, South Korea.
2010        Reconstituting Indigenous Oceanic Folktales. Scholars Space—University of Hawaii.
2010        Chief of Oceania (Epeli’s Quest: Essays in Honor of Epeli Hau’ofa). The Contemporary Pacific. 22:1, 114- 116 (101-123).
2009        Bridging Science and Indigenous Knowledge. Addressing National and Global Issues Through Scientific Research and Development. Edited by Prem P. Rai (Port Moresby:  UPNG School of Natural and Physical Sciences and School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 14-30.
2009        Unmasking History and Memory in Pacific Fiction. Papua New Guinea Journal of English Studies. 1: 1, 1-14.
2005        PNG Women Writers Finding the Paths Through Limitation. Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. XXVII: 2, 131-134.
2005        Dialogics of Literacy Education in Papua New Guinea. Sustainable Curriculum Development: the PNG Curriculum Reform Experience.  Edited by Paraka M. Pena. (Port Moresby: Papua New Guinea Department of Education), 86-96.
2003   Preface. Building a Nation: Views of the Post-Independence Generation. Edited by David Kavanamur, Charles Yala and Quinton Clements. (Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University), xi-xv.
2003.      Transition and Transformation. Meanjin on PNG. 62: 3, 169-177.
2001        Limitations of Self-Exile: Interview With Bernard Kaspou. Savannah Flames: A Papua New Guinean Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. 4: 1, 6-11.
2001    Literary Culture as Intellectual Capital for Nation Building. Savannah Flames: A Papua New Guinean Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. 4: 1, 97-109.
1999        Unwriting Oceania: The Repositioning of the Pacific Writer Scholar Within a Folk Narrative Space. New Literary History 31: 3 (Summer 2000), 599-615

Interviews


2006        In Spirits’ Voices: An Interview with Steven Winduo. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 42:1, 84-93.
2006        Call for Regional Response. Voyages: New Directions in Pacific Health. 1 (October 2006), 13.

Reviews


2007        Review of Decolonising the Mind, by Ulli Beier, The Contemporary Pacific, Spring. 19: 1 (Spring 2007), 330-332.
2003        Review of Kalahele by Imaikalani Kalahele. The Contemporary Pacific. 15:2 (Fall 2003), 507-510.
2001        Review of The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison. The Contemporary Pacific. 13:1 (Fall 2001), 297-299.
2000        Review of Gutsini Posa/Rough Seas by Regis Stella. The Contemporary Pacific. 12: 2 (Fall 2000), 551-554.

Short Stories and Poems


2007        No Free Land (short story). Writing the Pacific, edited by Kavita Nandan and Jen Webb. Suva: Pacific Writing Forum, 180-187.
2007        Rivers in the Sea (poem). Writing the Pacific, edited by Kavita Nandan and Jen Webb. Suva: Pacific Writing Forum, 175.
2007        A Thousand Candles (poem). Writing the Pacific, edited by Kavita Nandan and Jen Webb. Suva: Pacific Writing Forum, 176.
2007        Honiara i Paia (poem). Writing the Pacific
, edited by Kavita Nandan and Jen Webb. Suva: Pacific Writing Forum, 178-179.
2007        The Crash (short story). Dreadlocks: The Literary Journal of the School of Language, Arts, and Media, edited by David Which-Wilson, 4, 201-207.
2007        The Drums of Night (short story). Yellow Medicine Review. 1
2007        Into the Frontier (short story). Yellow Medicine Review. 1,
2007        Schefflera (poem). Yellow Medicine Review. 1
2007        Snake Plant (poem). Yellow Medicine Review. 1
2007        King of Hearts (poem). Yellow Medicine Review. 1
2007        Peace Lily (poem). Yellow Medicine Review. 1
2007        A Coconut Candle (poem). Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 42:1, 94.
2005        Candle City (poem). Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 42:1, 94.

2007        Fire in The Night (poem). Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 42:1, 95.


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