Southernmost: Sonnets

'It all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this story let 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: colonialisms violent legacies; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a young mothers mysterious decline; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father cant bear to acknowledge it. At the same time, it tells a story as sonnets have often done about love, through Boixs intimate and original evocation of gay marriage. Restlessly intelligent, intoxicated by Latin Americas landscapes and rich folklore, this virtuosic net of sonnets offers a glimpse of our worlds interconnecting threads.