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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris

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Will Harris is the author of Mixed-Race Superman (2018) – an essay examining resilience and self-creation, as well as a chapbook, All This is Implied, winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. A selection of his work was included in Ten: Poems of the New Generation; a full collection, provisionally entitled Rendang, is currently in the works. His poem SAY was shortlised for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Harris will be looking at the influence of Oriental aesthetic on Modernism, and discussing Pound’s impact upon his own work.

This interview was conducted on 31st October 2018 at Kings Place by Tom Deveson at Ezra Pound: Making It New.

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