Queer poetry reading by Leo Boix celebrating Pride

On the occasion of Pride Day, the Cervantes Institute presents a poetry recital by the Argentine poet Leo Boix, who will delight us with poems from his latest collection of poems Southernmost. In this book Leo Boix embarks on a fascinating journey through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - ‘the end of the world, the antipodes’ - to a new life in England. Unearthing an old pain, the poet embarks on a brilliant, encyclopaedic exploration of his own past and of the Latin America he left behind. he left behind. Southernmost reveals truths hidden in plain sight: the violent legacies of colonialism; the dissidents disappeared by the Junta; the mysterious decadence of a young mother and the illuminating sexuality of a boy whose father can't bear to acknowledge him. 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.