Southernmost: Sonnets

<p><b>''Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration … dazzling’ Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of <i>Top Doll</i></b><br><br>''<i>It all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this story</i><br><i>let me tell you how it all happened, how we turned unholy.''</i><br><br><b>In <i>Southernmost</i>, Leo Boix takes us on </b><b>a</b> <b>spellbinding</b> <b>voyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth – ‘</b><b>the end of the world, the antipode’ –</b><b> to a new life in England.</b><br><br>Unearthing an old grief, the poet embarks on a glittering, encyclopaedic exploration of his own past and the Latin America he left behind: a continent haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores.<br><br><i>Southernmost</i> reveals truths hidden in plain sight: colonialism’s violent legacies; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a young mother’s mysterious decline; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can’t bear to acknowledge it. 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. Restlessly intelligent, intoxicated by Latin America’s landscapes and rich folklore, this virtuosic net of sonnets offers a glimpse of our world’s interconnecting threads.<br><br><b>''In this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New'' Chloe Aridjis, author of <i>Sea Monsters</i></b><br><br><b>''As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us’ Urayoán Noel, author of <i>Transversal</i></b></p>