In Conversation | Will Alexander & James Goodwin | Granta

In Conversation

Will Alexander & James Goodwin

‘I may have mentioned this at a prior time but there are around 250,000 words in the English language, yet within the utilitarian scale they seem consumed according to advertising and profit.’

Will Alexander

Will Alexander is a critically acclaimed, LA-based poet, philosopher, visual artist and poet. He has won a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. He has published numerous collections with various publishers in the US, Refractive Africa will be his first UK publication.

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James Goodwin

James Goodwin is a poet doing a PhD in English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. His pamphlet, aspects caught in the headspace we’re in: composition for friends (2020), was published by Face Press; and his book, Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of the Slip (2021), was published by the 87press.

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