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.>

About the author

Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His first collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Boix is the co-director of Un Nuevo Sol, a national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is the editor of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry (2025). He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018, the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019 and a PEN Award in 2021.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Boix
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2025
• EAN: 9781784745851
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-585-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 216 mm x 12 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