Join us for an evening of poetry, discussion, live music and film with Leo Boix, Janel Pineda and Malika Booker.

This December we’ve lined up a group of leading contemporary performers to explore immigration, identity and the many different meanings of ‘home’, for an evening celebrating Leo’s Boix’s acclaimed new collection Ballad of a Happy Immigrant.

How does it feel to leave one’s home country and arrive in a new place with a new language? What does it mean to live, love and write between two cultures and traditions?

Leo will be joined on-stage by Salvadoran poet Janel Pineda, bringing her own experiences of migration to the US. The evening’s discussions will be hosted by their long-term friend, collaborator and multi-disciplinary writer Malika Booker.

Live music comes courtesy of Gaby Echevarría (piano and vocals) and Piero Pierini (percussion), and a poetry film featuring haiku written by Leo Boix will add to this celebration of the sounds and scenes of Latin American culture.

‘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’ Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

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