In June 2025, a Galician publisher released a facsimile edition of Federico García Lorca's 'Sonnets of Dark Love', which was originally published clandestinely in the autumn of 1983.

The initial release of the sonnets had a significant cultural impact during the transitional period of post-Franco Spain in the early 1980s.

This 1983 publication was initiated by an anonymous group of intellectuals who distributed copies to 250 experts and journalists, which ultimately led to Lorca's family publishing the poems in 1984.

The original booklet, printed in red ink, was intended to honor Lorca's legacy, which his family sought to protect due to the explicit content of the poems.

The sonnets express deeply homoerotic and anguished themes, reflecting Lorca's personal struggles before his murder during the Spanish Civil War.

Biographer Ian Gibson, one of the original recipients of the poems, emphasized their explicit nature regarding homosexual love, despite media reluctance to acknowledge this.

The facsimile edition includes quotes from notable poets Pablo Neruda and Vicente Aleixandre, who recalled Lorca reciting the sonnets with beauty and emotional depth.

Interestingly, Lorca's family chose to publish the sonnets in the right-wing ABC newspaper, which controversially avoided using the term 'homosexual' in its coverage.

Henrique Alvarellos, who oversaw the new edition, obtained a copy of the original booklet, now valued at around €5,000, and created a faithful reproduction that mirrors the original's paper and texture.