Mongrel Kampung Sasha Dugdale Yvonne Weekes currently lives in

Yvonne Weekes currently lives in Barbados

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

knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition

Rajiv has feelings for everything

taking another drink

Mongrel Kampung Sasha Dugdale Yvonne Weekes currently lives inThe 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