Will Harris by Matthew Thompson
“I remember the physical sensation of looking at words and sentences on a page, running my finger over them like indecipherable runes.”
Poet
Will Harris in conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi
Talking about the challenge of true connection
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Biography
Will Harris is a London-based writer. He is the author of the poetry books Rendang (2020) and Brother Poem (2023), both published by Granta in the UK and by Wesleyan University Press in the US, and the essay Mixed-Race Superman (Peninsula) which came out in 2018.
He has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and been shortlisted for the T.S. EliotPrize. He co-translated Habib Tengour’s Consolatio (Poetry Translation Centre) with Delaina Haslam in 2022, and helps facilitate the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule.
