Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar Jessica Traynor to a child’s reaction to

to a child’s reaction to being denied a responsive gaze

Death is cast too

the domestic and the otherworldly

with his use of the long poem

Phillis Levin

Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar Jessica Traynor to a child’s reaction toDeclared 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. Akhtars writing skilfully blends archaic languages with contemporary slang, wordplay, and esoteric vocabularies to create a language of its own.