To celebrate LGBT+ History Month Romancero Books and fourteen poems invite you to the launch of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry
Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry
A conversation and poetry reading with its publisher Ben Townley - Canning, editor, poet and translator Leo Boix and poet Tibiezas Dager.
Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry is an electrifying new collection spotlights LGBTQIA+ voices across Latin America in a bold bilingual collection that amplifies the voices of young LGBTQIA+ poets from across the Latin American region and its diaspora.
Edited and translated by the award-winning poet Leo Boix, Hemisferio Cuir is a literary milestone that explores queer desires, transgressive sexualities, and radical body politics in a post-patriarchal world. Featuring poets from 18 Spanish-speaking countries, this anthology brings together a dazzling spectrum of queer expression—from Indigenous and Afro-Latin American poets to voices from rural communities—delivering a powerful and intersectional portrait of contemporary Latin American poetry.
“These are voices that challenge, seduce, and liberate. Hemisferio Cuir is not just an anthology; it’s an act of resistance, a celebration of queer Latinidad, and a bridge between languages, cultures, and identities,” says Leo Boix, whose previous works include Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus, 2021) and Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025).
With themes spanning love, loss, family, discrimination, trans sensibilities, and desire, the anthology offers a fresh and fearless perspective on queer life in Latin America today. Published by Fourteen Poems, a London-based poetry press dedicated to championing LGBTQ+ voices, Hemisferio Cuir is set to be an essential addition to contemporary queer literature.
The anthology features the following poets: Washington Atencio, Paula Galíndez, Silvina Giaganti, and Pablo Romero (Argentina); César Antezana/Flavia Lima (Bolivia); Gabriela Contreras and Pablo Jofré (Chile); Flor Bárcenas Feria and Ana López Hurtado (Colombia); Ronald Campos López and David Ulloa (Costa Rica); Yordán Rey Oliva (Cuba); Ju Puello (Dominican Republic); Tibiezas Dager and Victoria Vaccaro García (Ecuador); Alberto López Serrano (El Salvador); Manuel Gabriel Tzoc Bucup (Guatemala); Yasón Serra and V. Andino Díaz (Honduras); Ingrid Bringas, César Cañedo, and Daniel Nizcub (Mexico); Magaly Castillo (Nicaragua); Edu Barreto (Paraguay); Fiorella Terrazas (Peru); Myr Olivares and Alejandra Rosa Morales (Puerto Rico); Ivix Pereira (Uruguay); and Enza García Arreaza (Venezuela).
Join us in celebrating the radical power of queer poetry. 🌈✨
LEO BOIX is an award-winning bilingual Latinx poet and translator born in Argentina and based in the UK. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2021 and received the Poetry Book Society’s Wild Card Choice. Boix has translated many Latin American poets into English, including Diana Bellessi, José Watanabe, Cecilia Vicuña, Oscar David López, Liliana Ancalao, and Jorge Eduardo Eielson. He has received several awards for his poetry, including the Bart Wolffe Poetry Award, the Keats-Shelley Prize, a PEN Award, and awards from The Society of Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust. Boix’s second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets, is forthcoming with Chatto & Windus in June 2025.
TIBIEZAS DAGER (*1997, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a writer and artist based in Lima. Her visual work analyzes the aesthetic economies of consumption. Her writing approaches the intersections between desire and harm. She is interested in the uses or abuses of quotidian objects and how images of intimacy and faith are functional to the institutionalizations of the self.
Venue: LOVE AFFAIR BASEMENT