Kaiju: Poems

Kaiju launches a poet, at turns lyrical, heady, and hypercontemporary, like no other. In these poems, Michael Balili revels in the unexpected and the mundane, deftly devising world records and oil spills, Indochina backpacking and monster attacks, observable universes and blind items, in a narrative and verse weave illumined by flashes of lightning.

Published in 2023.