Southernmost

Leonardo Boix

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.

Author(s): Boix, Leonardo
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 05/06/2025
Pagination: 96 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Published By: Chatto & Windus
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets|Migration, immigration & emigration|Migration, immigration & emigration|Migration, immigration & emigration|"Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss"|Narrative theme: Sense of place|Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Dimensions: 216x137x12
Weight: 157
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781784745851