The Grimoire of Grimalkin Dat alles over liefde gaat complex and intensely relational activity

complex and intensely relational activity

and lives for thousands of years

and essays

“We drag histories behind us

The Grimoire of Grimalkin Dat alles over liefde gaat complex and intensely relational activitySascha Aurora Akhtar The Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar is a poetry collection concerned with language as an energetic force. Akhtar invokes the form of the grimoire, spellbooks written by occultists in the 16th century, to explore the relationship of personal myth making to the wider macrocosm in which we exist, through colonial and gendered trauma; a grimalkin was a derogatory term used for the elder women seen as a witch: spiteful