WH - Will Harris Archive

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Will Harris Archive

2012-2022

2 boxes

Authors, English -- 21st century
Poetry

Harris, WillWill Harris is a London-based writer of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage. He is the author of the poetry books RENDANG (2020) and Brother Poem (2023), both published by Granta (UK). He has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

He co-edited the Spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review with Mary Jean Chan. He’s facilitated the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule, and co-translated Habib Tengour’s ‘Consolatio’ with Delaina Haslam in 2022. He is a Contributing Editor at The Rialto (poetry magazine) and a fellow of ‘The Complete Works III’. His debut pamphlet of poems, ‘All This is Implied’, published by HappenStance in 2017, was joint winner of the London Review Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year and shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. His poem ‘SAY’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2018. Mixed-Race Superman, an essay, was published by Peninsula Press in 2018 and in an expanded edition by Melville House in the US in 2019.

He was Visiting Poetry Fellow at UEA (2022-2023) and on the project team of 'Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archives'. This was a Mellon Foundation (Public Knowledge Program) funded project that began in May 2022 and concluded at the end of November 2023.

[Biographical description from The Arts Foundation and willjharris.com]

The Archive was deposited in 2023 under the Storehouse Model as part of a Mellon Foundation funded project (2021-2013) to build a Centre of Contemporary Poetry in the Archive at UEA.

The collection consists of 3 series:

WH/1 Published Works
WH/2 Creative Writing
WH/3 Posters

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