Southernmost: Sonnets

'As Terrance Hayes recast the American sonnet for the 21st Century, Leo Boix captures the spirit of Argentina in this vibrant, formally adroit and compelling sequence. Southernmost is a vivid, transhemispheric memoir of queer love, loss and migration that casts its dazzling, occasionally Gothic spell on wherever it alights, from the shores of the South Atlantic to the English Channel. Generous, vulnerable and vivifying’

Karen McCarthy Woolf

'Leo Boix's cartographic sonnets give queer form to interlocking personal and social histories, making music of loss and displacement. Their diasporic intellect summons "Latin America's heart" with equal parts rigour and play in a poetics as sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us’

Urayoán Noel

'In this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New, between sweeping landscapes and miniature, as he brilliantly captures the fluctuations of history, the natural world and the inner self. A splendid testament to Alexander von Humboldt’s own scientific vision and boundless curiosity, and his theory that everything is interconnected, everything interacts, every existence is part of a joyous and fragile totality'

Chloe Aridjis

Compelling… [with] observational detail, which is resplendent throughout… Sourthernmost is unflinching in its attention to Argentine history… The poems…are beautiful and unsentimental

Daily Telegraph

Boix smooths copious amounts of lived experience into taut, melodic poems that are thick with place

Guardian

[Boix’s] command of poetic English and a rich vocabulary are impressive… All in all, Southernmost: Sonnets is as disarming a collection as an album of butterflies

Morning Star