Mongrel Kampung Amanda Gorman of classical reinvention

of classical reinvention

I rhymed a lot

We begin in an abandoned school

rearranged and slightly altered

zoekt jou is een drieluik

Mongrel Kampung Amanda Gorman of classical reinventionMikael 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