TALK:
Southernmost: Sonnets
Leo Boix discusses Southernmost: Sonnets with Nathalie Teitler. In his most recent book, Boix takes us on a spellbinding voyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth – ‘the end of the world, the antipode’ – to a new life in England. Southernmost reveals truths hidden in plain sight: colonialism’s violent legacies; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a young mother’s mysterious decline; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can’t bear to acknowledge it. At the same time, it tells a story – as sonnets have often done – about love, through Boix’s intimate and original evocation of gay marriage.
Saturday 20 September 3–4pm
Minet Library, 52 Knatchbull Rd, London SE5 9QY
Leo Boix [he/him] is a bilingual Latinx poet from Argentina, based in the UK. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets, is shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes. His debut, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card and a Guardian top five poetry book. Boix edited and translated Hemisferio Cuir (2025), an anthology of young queer Latin American poets. A Complete Works fellow, he co-directs Un Nuevo Sol and sits on the Poetry Translation Centre and Magma boards. He writes for The Morning Star and has received multiple awards, including the Keats-Shelley and PEN prizes.
© Photo: Naomi Woods
Dr Nathalie Teitler [she/her] has promoted inclusivity in British arts, particularly literature, for 30 years. She has a PhD in Latin American literature and has years of experience in developing the British Latinx/Latin American community. She founded UNS British Latinx writers organisation with Argentinian British poet, Leo Boix and they co-edited the first anthology of British Latin writers in English. She was shortlisted for a Sky Arts Award and is currently writing a novel and a novella.
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