Mongrel Kampung Sasha Dugdale to noon when the poetic

to noon when the poetic Miss Jagabir is the last to leave for lunch

these poems trace a search for identity and for the meaning of family which everyone can relate to

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taking another drink

Yvonne Weekes currently lives in Barbados

Mongrel Kampung Sasha Dugdale to noon when the poeticThe poems of Mikael Johanis second collection Mongrel Kampung are mixed, mutated utterances of a heteroglossic headspace, a home at once familiar and foreign, backwards and forwards, I and another. Sometimes a poem is in English but refers to a world in which English is never spoken. It may contain a phrase in Javanese or Greek or Arabic or Aussie, but is intended for an audience who will never understand what it means. It may retell a dialogue in