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S2 Ep16: Will Harris, poet and essayist

S2 Ep16: Will Harris, poet and essayist

FromIn Writing with Hattie Crisell


S2 Ep16: Will Harris, poet and essayist

FromIn Writing with Hattie Crisell

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week I chat to Will Harris, a London-born poet and essayist of mixed Anglo-Indonesian heritage. Will’s debut poetry collection RENDANG came out in February; previously he was perhaps best known for the essay Mixed-Race Superman, which was published in 2018, and which The New York Times called “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.” He spoke to me about how engaging with his family history helped his poetry, the value of therapy as a writer, and why in his work, the political can’t be separated from the personal.
Released:
Jun 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (54)

Journalist Hattie Crisell visits the studies of writers of all kinds – novelists, screenwriters, poets, journalists and more – to find out how they write, why they write, and what they can teach us about doing it better.