Mongrel Kampung by Mikael Johani Seán Hewitt ” —from the cover of

” —from the cover of Other Names for the Heart

Shaping predilections of the hanging tree: leaves and thick tapering branches bend back to reveal a bandaged body

rooted in the landscape of Mayo

with relationships

Natalie's world is falling apart

Mongrel Kampung by Mikael Johani Seán Hewitt ” —from the cover ofPublished 15th April 2025. 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