Southernmost: Sonnets

'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 pa...