Leo Boix
@leoboix
Latinx-British-Arg. poet & translator. 'Ballad of a Happy Immigrant'@vintagebooks Winner of BartWolffe Prize, Keats-Shelley Prize, KBlundell Trust & PEN Awards
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What a line-up! We're delighted to be joined by poets Andrew McMillan Mary Jean Chan & Richard Scott for a night of readings and celebration to mark #100QueerPoems , the landmark anthology of work by visionary poets past and present
🕖Tues 18 June, 7pm
🎫bit.ly/3WQHI8u
This will be 🔥🔥🔥 Come to celebrate the Poetry Translation Centre’s 20th birthday with a multilingual evening of queer Latinx poetry and translation at Ledbury Poetry Festival. I'll be reading with Diana Bellessi, Paula Galindez, Osvaldo Bossi and Jon Herring🌈
ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/
My latest 'Letters from Latin America' in today's Morning Star where I review a dazzling collection by Paraguayan-American poet Diego Báez 🧉 🐆 Yaguareté White (UAPress, 2024) (@AZpress) and a provocative novel by Venezuelan Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (@7StoriesPress)
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/letter…
#SSTPoetryPrize 2024 is now OPEN FOR ENTRIES!
Translate into English any poem from ANY language and win cash prizes!
Deadline midnight 31 July.
#SSTPoetryPrize #PortugueseSpotlight
We're celebrating the paperback of 100 Queer Poems on 18th June ✨
Join Mary Jean Chan Andrew McMillan Richard Scott at Foyles Bookshop Charing Cross Road for poetry and conversation!
foyles.co.uk/events/100-que…
Vintage Books
Hungry for some quality poetry this weekend? Check out the poems that were commended by the judges in our TASTE Poetry Competition! Work by Leo Boix, Marka Rifat, Mariah Whelan, Michael Brown, Andrew George, Siobhan Ward, and Dulcie Shaw oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/taste-poetry-c…
Two of my Spanish poems in Mexico’s Letras Libres /Dos de mis poemas en español en la revista mexicana Letras Libres #MensualdePoesia
#latinamericanpoetry
letraslibres.com/poesia/leo-boi…
My review of Massoud Hayoun's London art show in today's Morning Star. An exhibition that combines personal histories, political struggles and Jewish-Arab roots to denounce political oppression and advocate for social justice Massoud Hayoun #LarkinDurey
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arab-d…
Taste Poetry Competition: Shortlist announcement 💫💫💫💫💫💫💫oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/2024/04/26/tas… via Oxford Poetry Library
Just arrived! The full programme for this year’s Ledbury Poetry Festival. 🌈🌈🌈🦜✨🐊🌵Really looking forward to taking part in a series of events #latinxpoetry #poetryintranslation #latinamericanpoetry
I'm producing two events at Ledbury this year for Poetry Translation Centre 🌈 I'm super excited about the queer Latinx showcase on Friday 29th June ft. the lovely Leo Boix, Diana Bellessi and more. Then on Sat 30th there's a translation workshop open to all with Leo and Jon Russell Herring 🌟