Mongrel Kampung On Haiku None of this

None of this

part bibliophilic anthem

plural and singular

bezwerend en intuïtief buitelen de gedachten over elkaar heen in wat Astrid Haerens zelf een ‘onveilige zoektocht in taal’ noemt

in five numbered sections

Mongrel Kampung On Haiku None of thisMikael 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