Southernmost: Sonnets

'Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration dazzling Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of Top Doll'It all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this storylet me tell you how it all happened, how 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 his own past and the Latin America he left behind: a continent haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores.Southernmost 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.'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 Sea Monsters'As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us Urayo n Noel, author of Transversal