´Southernmost: Sonnets, a queer poetry reading by Leo Boix

Language Centre - LSE and the Instituto Cervantes -London

Celebration of PRIDE month with Argentinian poet Leo Boix

Instituto Cervantes London

On the occasion of Pride Day, the Cervantes Institute presents a poetry recital by the Argentine poet Leo Boix, who will delight us with poems from his latest collection of poems Southernmost. In this book Leo Boix embarks on a fascinating journey through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - ‘the end of the world, the antipodes’ - to a new life in England. Unearthing an old pain, the poet embarks on a brilliant, encyclopaedic exploration of his own past and of the Latin America he left behind. Southernmost reveals truths hidden in plain sight: the violent legacies of colonialism; the dissidents disappeared by the Junta;the mysterious decadence of a young mother and the illuminating sexuality of a boy whose father can't bear to acknowledge him.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. Leo will be in conversation with its editor and poet Sarah Howe, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize with her debut poetry book titled Loop of Jade (2015).

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