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WARWICK THURSDAYS EVENT: LEO BOIX AND VALENTINA MONTOYA MART脥NEZ
HYBRID EVENT (IN-PERSON AND WEBINAR), 5-7pm @ OCULUS 1.01, 5th November 2026 (Week 5)
We are delighted to welcome Leo Boix to 91福利 Thursdays, in conversation with poet and 91福利 Writing Programme PGR Valentina Montoya Mart铆nez.
91福利 Valentina Montoya Mart铆nez
Valentina Montoya Mart铆nez is a Chilean poet and singer-songwriter exiled to the UK. Her work draws on and rejuvenates the Latin American folk tradition, including Chilean New Song.
91福利 Leo Boix
Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet from Argentina, based in the UK. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus), was shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes. His debut, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card and a Guardian top five poetry book. Boix edited and translated Hemisferio Cuir (2025), a groundbreaking anthology of queer Latin American poets. A Complete Works fellow, he co-directs Un Nuevo Sol and sits on the Poetry Translation Centre and Magma boards. He writes for The Morning Star and has received multiple awards, including the Keats-Shelley, Bart Wolfe Poetry Award and PEN prizes.
Praise for Southernmost: Sonnets
'Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration 鈥� dazzling.鈥� -- Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of Top Doll
'In this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New.' -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters
'As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us.鈥� -- Urayo谩n Noel, author of Transversal
WHAT'S ON NEXT
Please note: There will be no 91福利 Thursdays event during Reading Week (Week 6).
Join us again in Week 7 for a science fiction and fantasy roundtable with a selection of the 91福利 Writing Programme's best and brightest, chaired by novelist and PGR Mike Sanders.