Human Rights & Testimonio: Poems of Resistance and Rebellion with Leo Boix

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Human Rights &amp; Testimonio: Poems of Resistance and Rebellion a poetry workshop with Leo Boix

What makes literature so necessary in times of flagrant human right violations, and how can poetry respond in their wake? In this workshop we will look at poets and writers who take as their subjects human rights abuses, injustices, and oppression, and at the form of testimonio as a means of defiance and rebellion.We will be closely reading and discussing a poems of struggle and resistance, including works by Raúl Zurita, Juan Gelman, Carolyne Forché, Martín Espada, Warsan Shire, Javier Zamora, Juan Felipe Herrera and Ilya Kaminsky, as well as analysing the summary version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a text in itself. Through a series of writing prompts and exercises to get you inspired you will write your own response to themes of human rights and your own testimonio poetry, feeling out the connections between personal experience and collective catastrophe, between the unspeakable and the urgent, between what silences us and how we speak back. Meet the speakerLeo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet born in Argentina who lives and works in the UK. Boix has published two poetry collections in Spanish, Un Lugar Propio and Mar de Noche (both with Letras del Sur Editora, Argentina). He has been included in many anthologies, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe), The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2020 (BlackSpring Press), Islands Are But Mountains: Contemporary Poetry from Great Britain (Platypus Press) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye). His poems have appeared in POETRY, PN Review, The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Manchester Review, The White Review, Ambit, The Morning Star, The Rialto, Magma Poetry, Prism International and elsewhere. He is a fellow of The Complete Works program and co-director of Invisible Presence, an Arts Council national scheme to nurture new voices of Latinx writers in the UK, and an advisory board member of The Poetry Translation Centre. Boix was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize Award 2018 and the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019. ‘Ballad of a Happy Immigrant’ is his debut English collection and will be published by Chatto &amp; Windus in June 2021.

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