The Grimoire of Grimalkin

Declared a 'contemporary masterpiece' on its original publication in2007, Sascha Aurora Akhtar's debut collection is a work of post-modern Gothic. Its poems are concerned with mythology, meaning-making, the magical andmystical, a grimoire is a magic textbook or spellbook. Akhtar's writingskilfully blends archaic languages with contemporary slang, wordplay, andesoteric vocabularies to create a language of its own.