Latinx Online Showcase
Discover new poetry and ideas about writing, activism and creativity from contemporary Latinx poets at work today, in Spanish and English.
This event, presented by the National Poetry Library, presents the dynamic and explosive scene of UK Latinx poetry.
Chatto-published poet Leo BOIX reads from a groundbreaking anthology of LGBTQ voices, Hemisferio Cuir. He is joined by poets Simeon Pereira-Madder and Patrizia Longhitano representing mixed race and Afro-Latinx perspectives.
Tangled Tongues/Lenguas Enredadas is a writing group founded by Nathalia Samhil Gonzalez Gutierrez and Anahi Saravia Herrera with the aim of exploring Spanglish as a political and creative medium, and building community with other London-based migrant writers. Reading from the group’s eponymous zine are Nathalia Samhil Gonzalez Gonzalez, Francesca Asprella, Luisa De la Concha Montes, Isabelle Bollekens and Elida Silvey.
Enrique Zattara presents a new anthology Equidistant Voices (Latin American Poets in the UK), a bilingual anthology of Latin American poets living in the United Kingdom. The anthology is a joint publication by three independent London-based publishers, Equidistancias, Friends of Alice Publishing and El Ojo de la Cultura Hispanoamericana.
London Spanish Book & Zine Fair presents some of the highlights of its sixth edition and explores poetry’s connection between the written word and cultural resistance. Poets include Natalia Figueroa Gallardo, Xaviera Ringeling, Elizabeth Salazar Guerra, Mabel Encinas, Isabel Ros López, Walter Willig and Jael de la Luz García. Presented by Silvia Demetilla.
Argentine poet Laura Wittner shares poems from Translation of the Route (Poetry Translation Centre/Bloodaxe Books), her 11th collection and the first to be translated into English. She reads both the Spanish originals and the English translations by Juana Adcock.