Carlos Cociña

Carlos Cociña is one of the most important contemporary Chilean poets. Recently, his work has garnered more attention, receiving awards such as the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize in Poetry (2014), the Lifetime Achievement Award at La Chascona Poetry Festival (2017), and the Circle of Art Critics of Chile Poetry Prize (2017). His first book, Aguas servidas, is widely considered to be his most important, and one of the most significant of the years of Chilean dictatorship. A translation of a selection of his poetry, Gardens, has been translated to English by Ian Lockaby and published by Cardboard House Press (2021). He is also active in digital poetry, running the website poesiacero.cl, which contains some of his digital poetics.