Will Harris is a writer of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage, born and based in London. His poetry pamphlet, All this is implied (HappenStance 2017), was joint winner of the London Review Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year and shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. His poems and essays have been published in the TLS, Granta, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books, and his essay Mixed-Race Superman was published buy Peninsula Press in 2018. His debut poetry collection RENDANG (UK: Granta; US: Wesleyan University Press) was a Poetry Book Society Choice, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Since then, he has published a second collection, Brother Poem (Granta/Wesleyan, 2023), co-translated Habib Tengour’s Consolatio (Poetry Translation Centre) with Delaina Haslam in 2022, and contributed to the collaborative pamphlet Siblings (Monitor Books, 2024). Author photo © Etienne Gilfillan
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Judges Lavinia Greenlaw (Chair), Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan have chosen the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist from 153 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The shortlist comprises work from five men and five women; two Americans; as well as poets of Native American, Chinese Indonesian and...
