Grimoire of Grimalkin, the
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Author: Sascha Aurora Akhtar
Declared a ‘contemporary masterpiece’ on its original publication in 2007, Pakistani-British-American poet 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.Akhtar performs internationally, with recent highlights including the Medway Festival of Literature, Emirates Festival of Literature, Poetry Wales and Rotterdam Poetry Festival. She studied at Bennington College, Vermont and University of Amherst, Massachusetts and considers herself Pakistani-British- American, something reflected in the linguistic registers of her work. Akhtar has published seven collections of poetry, and her first short story collection, Of Necessity And Wanting was shortlisted for the UBL Prize for Literary Excellence in 2023. Akhtar translated Belles-Lettres: Writings of Hijab Imtiaz Ali, the first translation of Ali's 'Adab-e-Zareen' published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Belles-Lettres which also contains a 20,000 word biographical essay has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for book translations from South Asian languages into English awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. Akhtar is a Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Greenwich.
ISBN 9781913513573. Prototype Publishing. pb. 74 pages. 22.8 x 15.3 cm.
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Declared a ‘contemporary masterpiece’ on its original publication in 2007, Pakistani-British-American poet 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.Akhtar performs internationally, with recent highlights including the Medway Festival of Literature, Emirates Festival of Literature, Poetry Wales and Rotterdam Poetry Festival. She studied at Bennington College, Vermont and University of Amherst, Massachusetts and considers herself Pakistani-British- American, something reflected in the linguistic registers of her work. Akhtar has published seven collections of poetry, and her first short story collection, Of Necessity And Wanting was shortlisted for the UBL Prize for Literary Excellence in 2023. Akhtar translated Belles-Lettres: Writings of Hijab Imtiaz Ali, the first translation of Ali's 'Adab-e-Zareen' published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Belles-Lettres which also contains a 20,000 word biographical essay has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for book translations from South Asian languages into English awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. Akhtar is a Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Greenwich.
ISBN 9781913513573. Prototype Publishing. pb. 74 pages. 22.8 x 15.3 cm.
available