{"id":8039,"date":"2022-12-01T12:41:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:14:35","slug":"sascha-akhtar-occulted-petals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/8039\/sascha-akhtar-occulted-petals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sascha Aurora Akhtar: Occulted Petals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRcnSePOkwg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sascha Aurora Akhtar says: My piece: Occulted Petals is a moving image poetry piece in honour of Geraldine Monk. She uses that juxtaposition of words in her brilliant poetry collection\u00a0<em>Advent<\/em> from Crater Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Sascha\u00a0Aurora Akhtar\u00a0has crafted six metaphysical poetry collections, a short story collection\u00a0Of Necessity And Wanting\u00a0embracing social realism\u00a0and a volume comprising a\u00a0biography\u00a0and first time translations of Hijab Imtiazs&#8217; little known manuscript\u00a0<i>Adab-E-Zareen<\/i>\u00a0<wbr \/>upcoming in 2022 with Oxford University Press.\u00a0Akhtar\u00a0is a Poetry School tutor and lecturer at the University of Greenwich.\u00a0She\u00a0performs internationally, some highlights include the Emirates Festival of Literature 2022 and Rotterdam Poetry Festival 2012.\u00a0 Latest writings appear in the Prototype Annual 4,\u00a0<i>Cut-Purse<\/i>\u00a0(Tangerine Press, 2022),\u00a0<i>Of Myths and Mothers<\/i>\u00a0anthology 2022 and Lucy Writers Platform.\u00a0Akhtar\u00a0has poetry forthcoming with both Intergraphia and Haverthorn Press. Her latest poetic works embrace many forms, mostly eschewing the &#8216;book&#8217; or the &#8216;page&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Click here to go back to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/8008\/contributors-and-links-to-pages-1-4-4\/\">Contributors and Links to Pages 1 &#8211; 4<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sascha Aurora Akhtar says: My piece: Occulted Petals is a moving image poetry piece in honour of Geraldine Monk. She uses that juxtaposition of words in her brilliant poetry collection\u00a0Advent from Crater Press. &nbsp; &nbsp; Sascha\u00a0Aurora Akhtar\u00a0has crafted six metaphysical poetry collections, a short story collection\u00a0Of Necessity And Wanting\u00a0embracing social realism\u00a0and a volume comprising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[69,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-25F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8379,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}