'It all happened long time ago, no one now remembers this story let me tell you how it all happened, how once we turned unholy.' In Southernmost, Leo 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. Unearthing an old grief, the poet embarks on a glittering, encyclopaedic exploration of the Latin America he left behind: a journey through personal memory into a continent’s past, haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores. Helping us ‘see faces history can’t reach’, Southernmost reveals truths hidden in plain sight: the devastation of indigenous peoples and their lands; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a mother’s concealed cancer diagnosis; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can’t bear to acknowledge it. Restlessly intelligent, tender in their evocation of gay intimacy, migration, and the natural world, this virtuosic net of sonnets captures a glimpse of our world’s interconnecting threads. 'And I realised I couldn’t go on travelling – I had to stop my tour; that there was no El Dorado; their vast skies were also ours. Years later, in another country, I was also an interpreter who tried to render things from one world to another. When I finally wake up I’m always at a loss. Where am I? I’m back home, of course. Still, outside, the strangest sky.' '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 Southernmost Sonnets ... is spellbinding throughout, the images simple yet vivid; Boix is a modern master of using the sonnet-- Guardian, *Books of the Year* Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. He is a recent fellow of The Complete Works, a national mentoring programme aimed at poets from minority backgrounds, which included poets such as Kayo Chingonyi, Sarah Howe and Warsan Shire, among others. His poems have been included in many anthologies, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe), The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021 (Eyewear Publishing) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye), and have appeared in POETRY, PN Review, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Boix is co-director of Invisible Presence, an Arts Council England national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is a board member of Magma Poetry, co-editor of its Resistencia issue showcasing the best Latinx writing, and an advisory board member of the Poetry Translation Centre in London. He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018 and the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019.