Declared a ‘contemporary masterpiece’ on its original publication in 2007, Sascha Aurora Akhtar's debut collection is a work of post-modern Gothic. Its poems are concerned with mythology, meaning-making, the magical and mystical; a grimoire is a magic textbook or spellbook. Akhtar’s writing skilfully blends archaic languages with contemporary slang, wordplay, and esoteric vocabularies to create a language of its own.
‘On reading The Grimoire of Grimalkin, it’s clear that Sascha Aurora Akhtar is a language-diviner, her poems conjured from “the galaxy of lingual acrobatics.” Akhtar’s poems, which are like nobody else’s, are gobsmacking, magical. This work casts a wild, incantatory music that beguiles both ear and tongue.’ – Sylvia Legris
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- Year Published:
- 2024
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781913513573
- Publication Date:
- 26/09/2024
- Publisher:
- Prototype Publishing Ltd.
- Language:
- English
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9781913513573