Leo Boix Workshop - Queerness, Migration & Multilingual Poetics

How can poetry hold the experience of crossing borders, loving against the grain, and speaking in more than one tongue? In this online workshop, poet, translator, and teacher Leo Boix—author of Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025) and editor of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poets—invites participants to explore the intersections of queerness and migration through language.

Drawing inspiration from Boix’s latest book, Southernmost: Sonnets, we will experiment with form, code-switching, and the richness of multiple languages to write poems that challenge borders, open new intimacies, and reimagine belonging. Participants will engage with readings, prompts, and discussions that celebrate hybridity, play, and resistance.

Whether you are writing in English, Spanish, or any language you call home, this workshop is an invitation to expand your poetic practice and discover the liberating power of multilingual queer poetics.

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Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet and translator from Argentina, based in the UK. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus), is shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes and was hailed by The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The Morning Star for its lyrical intensity and fearless exploration of queer, diasporic experience. 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 (Fourteen Poems, 2025), a groundbreaking 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. Boix's poetic voice has been commissioned by the Royal Kew Gardens, Tate Modern, the National Poetry Library, and various festivals and institutions across the UK. He writes for The Morning Star and has received multiple awards, including the Keats-Shelley, the Barts Wolfe Poetry prize and PEN Awards.