Mongrel Kampung Sasha Dugdale who uses a panoply of

who uses a panoply of vocabularies to evoke the medical

Described by the late U

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

Yvonne Weekes currently lives in Barbados

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

Mongrel Kampung Sasha Dugdale who uses a panoply ofThe 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