Southernmost: Sonnets

Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. He is a recent fellow of The Complete Works, a national mentoring programme aimed at poets from minority backgrounds, which included poets such as Kayo Chingonyi, Sarah Howe and Warsan Shire, among others. His poems have been included in many anthologies, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe), The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021 (Eyewear Publishing) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye), and have appeared in POETRY, PN Review, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Boix is co-director of Invisible Presence, an Arts Council England national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is a board member of Magma Poetry, co-editor of its Resistencia issue showcasing the best Latinx writing, and an advisory board member of the Poetry Translation Centre in London. He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018 and the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019.>

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Leo Boix

Product details

• Authors: Leo Boix
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 05.06.2025
• EAN: 9781784745851
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-585-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Buenos Aires, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Poetry by individual poets, Migration, immigration and emigration, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, POETRY / LGBTQ+, Poetry by form: Sonnet, POETRY / Sonnets