Mongrel Kampung On Haiku Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls

Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls

The North Road Songbook collects together eight sequences of poems

None of this

part bibliophilic anthem

plural and singular

Mongrel Kampung On Haiku Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skullsMikael Johani The 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