Besides an inveterate love of language which makes you write "her malachite decolletage," whatever else you need to be a good poet is here. It could be sounds. Come right in; don't step gently then - Bernadette Mayer
This photograph was taken by Kohi in Pakistan in 2007. It was inspired by an image of Marlene Dietrich in a white suit on a staircase.
Wrapped in necromancy, invocations and references to the Devil, The Grimoire of Grimalkin is a baroque excursion into language taking Bakhtin’s ideas of polyglossia, Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome model and other postmodern philosophies and running amok with them. The work is rife with literary, film, and television references, and a particular debt is owed to The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Any notions of “meaning” are consistently challenged in Akhtar’s primordial forge, where language melts into a bubbling cauldron of delicious trickery, sex and death, magick and mayhem and, above all, love. This is a work of contemporary Gothic, with a punk core and an anarchic sense of humour.
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