Birds in Many Tongues: A Latinx Poetry Workshop with Leo Boix

Inspired by the Aga Khan Centre’s exhibition, this workshop centres Latinx and Latin American voices within a shared space of language, migration, imagination.

Responding to Michaela McMillan’s sculptural birds and Mike Collier’s moving-image work, participants will write across Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Indigenous languages—exploring how stories travel; how they transform and take root in new contexts.

Through collaborative exercises in translation and re-writing, we’ll reflect on individual identity, diaspora, collective voice—like a flock in motion, each language reshaping the journey.

This workshop will be led by poet and translator Leo Boix, a British Latinx poet writing in Spanish and English, whose work explores queer identity, migration, gender and cultural translation through lyric intensity and visual imagination. He is the author of Southernmost: Sonnets and Ballad of a Happy Immigrant.

Lovers of words in all languages welcome.

The Poetry Translation Centre is the only UK organisation dedicated to translating and promoting contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. They publish books, organise events and deliver hands-on translation workshops that are open and inclusive to all. They also offer online resources including a dual-language poetry podcast and an extensive web archive of poems in translation.

The Aga Khan Centre in London’s King’s Cross is a place for education, knowledge, cultural exchange and insight into Muslim civilisations. The organisations that are located here work together to bridge the gap in understanding about Muslim cultures and to connect the public to global development issues. The Aga Khan Centre hosts a variety of events, exhibitions and talks that are open to the public.

Canticle of the Birds is a mixed-media exhibition inspired by the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, bringing together artists from the UK and beyond with artisans and young people in creative collaboration.

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