Anamot Press is running an online workshop exploring the love letter as a poetic form.

Through the work of contemporary queer poets such as Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Eduardo C. Corral, Raquel Salas Rivera, Mary Jean Chan, Natalie Diaz and Leo Boix—as well as Latin American writers such as Pedro Lemebel and Carmen Berenguer—this workshop considers how poets address absent or forbidden lovers through sonnets, epistolary poems, fragments, and archival traces.

Led by poet and facilitator Leo Boix.

How do we write what cannot easily be spoken? In this two-hour poetry workshop, we will explore the love letter as a poetic form: a space for secrecy, longing, confession, and translation. Through the work of contemporary queer poets such as Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Eduardo C. Corral, Raquel Salas Rivera, Mary Jean Chan, Natalie Diaz and Leo Boix—as well as Latin American writers such as Pedro Lemebel and Carmen Berenguer—we will consider how poets address absent or forbidden lovers through sonnets, epistolary poems, fragments, and archival traces.

Participants will be guided through writing exercises that translate intention, silence, and desire into language. Together we will experiment with voice, multilingual textures, and hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between letter, poem, and memory.

The workshop invites writers to explore intimacy on the page and discover how poetry can transform private feeling into shared expression.

Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet, born in Argentina and based in London. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025), was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and named a book of the year by The Guardian and The Week. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.

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Please select the ticket type based on your current financial situation. We have two fully subsidised tickets available for this workshop, please only select this if you're not in a financial position to pay for a standard or solidarity ticket. 

This workshop will be on zoom and details will be shared in advance.

For any questions contact hello@anamotpress.com