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Will Harris

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Will Harris

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1989
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
London, UK

Career

Occupations
Poet
Active Years
2017-2024
Influenced By
Bernardine Evaristo
Nominations
2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem shortlist (SAY), 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist (RENDANG), 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize longlist (RENDANG), 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize shortlist (RENDANG)

Awards

Forward Prize for Best First Collection
2020
Work: RENDANG
Category: Best First Collection
Organization: Forward Arts Foundation
Result: Winner
Arts Foundation Poetry Fellowship
2019
Organization: Arts Foundation
Result: Fellowship
London Review Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year
2017
Work: All This Is Implied
Organization: London Review Bookshop
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

RENDANG

2020 Poetry collection

A sharp and assured debut collection that meditates on the multiplicity of identity. Poems that brim with soul and playfulness.

multiplicity of identitysoul and playfulnessmixed-race experience

Brother Poem

2023 Poetry collection

Mixed-Race Superman

2018 Essay

A zany, exuberant and highly original meditation on what it means to come of age as a mixed-race person in a predominantly white world.

mixed-race identityin-betweenness

Bibliography

  • All This Is Implied (2017)
  • Mixed-Race Superman (2018)
  • RENDANG (2020)
  • Brother Poem (2023)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
sharp and assuredbrim with soul and playfulness
Recurring Motifs
mixed-race identityin-betweennessmulticulturalism

Legacy

London-based poet of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage. His debut poetry book RENDANG won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was highly acclaimed for exploring multiplicity of identity.

Trivia

  • Of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage.
  • London-based.
  • Mentored on The Complete Works poets of colour mentoring scheme.