The Grimoire of Grimalkin Dat alles over liefde gaat Yoshimasu Gozo’s groundbreaking poetry has

Yoshimasu Gozo’s groundbreaking poetry has spanned over half a century since the publication of his first book

complex and intensely relational activity

but it is true more generally of the language of poetry and therefore of poetry itself

Seared by the world and everything in it

The Grimoire of Grimalkin Dat alles over liefde gaat Yoshimasu Gozo’s groundbreaking poetry hasSascha 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