A dazzling debut collection of migration, home and homeland from an important Latinx voice. and “It isn’t often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world – and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix’s poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open. and ” –Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic. and “They are sailors from another century, stalwart captured on daguerrotype, casually masculine, tender of heart. and “In the middle of the last century, the SS General Pueyrredon from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix’s paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time. In the two years he spends there, he acquires a taste for his new from taking his tea white – muy blanco – to plunging into unfamiliar sensual worlds.So begins the poet’s own journey, arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. Ballad of a Happy Immigrant tells of the life he makes a dazzling collection of what it means to live, love and write between two cultures and traditions. Effortlessly moving between the English imagination and Spanish language, it is a boundless exploration of otherness and home, and the personal transformation that follows between ‘loss and a life that starts anew.’

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