BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:360exp REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fefbf201-3fc3-495f-9025-210aecf8620d@360exp.net SEQUENCE:29823123 DTSTAMP:20260917T002925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T120340Z DTSTART:20261126T190000Z DTEND:20261126T203000Z SUMMARY:Sonnets of Dark Love by Lorca. Poetry reading LOCATION:Gay's The Word DESCRIPTION:Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London\, AC/E Programme for the Internalisation of Spanish Culture presents the VI London Festival of Queer Spanish Culture Poetry readingLeo Boix\, Adriann Ramírez and Peter Scarpello reading Sonnets of Dark LoveSonnets of Dark Love (Sonetos del am or oscuro)Sonetos del amor oscuro is a sequence of eleven sonnets written by Federico García Lorca in the final years of his life\, generally dated to 1935–1936\, shortly before his assassination at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Composed in the classical sonnet form — a deliberate return to traditional Spanish poetic structure after the more experimental \, surrealist-inflected work of his earlier career — the sequence stands as one of the most intense and openly homoerotic bodies of love poetry in the Spanish language\, expressing desire\, jealousy\, longing and anguish with a rawness rarely matched in Lorca's other work.The poems are widely believed to have been inspired by Lorca's relationship with Juan Ramírez de Lucas\, a young writer and activist with whom the poet was involved in the months before his death\, though scholars have also read them as addre ssed to a more composite or symbolic beloved. The "dark love" of the title has traditionally been interpreted as a reference to homosexual desire — a love that\, in the social and political climate of 1930s Spain\, cou ld not be named or lived openly\, and was therefore cloaked in secrecy\, s hadow and suffering. Poems such as "Soneto de la carta" and "El poeta pide a su amor que le escriba" combine the anguish of unrequited or threatened love with an unmistakable eroticism\, fusing classical form with a modern \, unflinching account of queer desire.Lorca never authorised the publicat ion of the sonnets during his lifetime\, and their transmission history ha s long been entangled with the broader suppression and sanitising of his h omosexuality by Francoist Spain and\, for decades afterward\, by custodian s of his literary legacy. The poems circulated only in fragments and unaut horised versions for years — first partially published in 1983–84\, no tably in the newspaper ABC\, in a version many considered incomplete or al tered — before a more definitive text was established in the 1990s. Thei r fraught publication history has made the Sonetos del amor oscuro not onl y a landmark of twentieth-century Spanish poetry\, but also a symbol of th e long struggle to recover and fully acknowledge the queer dimension of Lo rca's life and work — a struggle that remains at the heart of how his le gacy continues to be read\, reclaimed and celebrated today. BiosLeo BoixLe o Boix is a gay\, Argentine–British Latinx poet and translator based in the UK. He is the author of two acclaimed English-language collections\, B allad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus\, 2021)\, a Poetry Book Societ y Wild Card Choice\, and Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus\, 2025)\, shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and named a book of the year by The Gua rdian and The Telegraph. He has also published two collections in Spanish \, Un lugar propio (2015) and Mar de noche (2017)\, and is the editor and lead translator of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin Amer ican Poetry. Boix has won the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize\, the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry and a PEN Award\, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2026.Adriann RamirezAdriann Ramirez is a London-b ased multidisciplinary artist working across dance\, choreography\, film a nd poetry. They host Lavender Language\, a long-running podcast featuring conversations with queer artists\, and their creative work explores gender \, sexuality\, queerness and heritage. Their debut poetry collection\, Hot Tears Through Velvet Rage (Polari Press\, 2021) — a collage of queer lo ve\, shame\, anger and self-acceptance combining poetry and photography\, with a foreword by Paul Kindersley — marked their first venture into pub lished writing after earlier careers in dance and film.Peter ScalpelloPete r Scalpello is a queer poet and sexual health therapist originally from Gl asgow\, now based in London. Their work has appeared in Five Dials\, fourt een poems\, Gutter\, harana poetry\, Perverse and Under the Radar\, among other magazines and anthologies. Their debut collection\, Limbic (Cipher P ress\, 2022)\, explores chemsex\, masculinity\, trauma and memory through the lens of queer experience\, establishing Scalpello as one of the most f earless voices in contemporary British queer poetry. Event in English.Copi es of the book will be available for purchase after the talk.Check the Fes tival's website to know about our other events:https://www.romancerobooks- store.co.uk/vi-lfqsc-fcqel-2026\n\nBoletos: https://www.outsavvy.com/event /39627/sonnets-of-dark-love-by-lorca-poetry-reading URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/fefbf201-3fc3-495f-9025-210aecf8620 d STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR