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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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Sascha Aurora Akhtar has published seven collections of poetry. 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’, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Belles-Lettres 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. A third-generation psychic in the Lancashire lineage, Akhtar studied in Pakistan and at Bennington College, Vermont, and University of Amherst, Massachusetts. Akhtar performs internationally highlights include the Emirates Festival of Literature, Poetry Wales and Rotterdam Poetry Festival. She is a Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Greenwich and has been facilitating the melding of magical praxis and writing at the Poetry School London, since 2019, cultivating an international cohort of practitioners.

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