Events


 

Mark Strand, Dora Malech and Joseph Harrison reading

Tuesday, February 23rd, 7:00pm

McNally Jackson Books

52 Prince St
New York, NY 10012, USA
(212) 274-1160

www.mcnallyjackson.com


 

 
 

Dora Malech readings

 

Dora Malech, author of Shore Ordered Ocean, a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will read from her work at a number of US venues between January and May 2010. To see the schedule, please visit her website by clicking on the link below:

http://doramalech.com/events/

Dora will also be doing a UK reading tour at the end of February and in early March, details of which will be posted here shortly.

 

 

 

 

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize celebratory reading

Saturday November 7th 2009, 6:00 pm

Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Washington DC

 

 

Carrie Jerrell read from her prize-winning debut volume, After the Revival. Preceding her to the podium were Dora Malech, whose Shore Ordered Ocean was a finalist in 2007 and 2008, and Bradford Gray Telford, whose Perfect Hurt was a finalist in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The event was introduced by Barbara Meade, Manager of the store, and Philip Hoy, Editor-in-Chief of The Waywiser Press, prefaced the readings with a short account of the Hecht Prize's background. The event attracted a large and enthusiastic audience.

 

Carrie Jerrell reading from After the Revival

 

 

Dora Malech reading from Shore Ordered Ocean

 

 

Bradford Gray Telford reading from Perfect Hurt

 

 

Carrie Jerrell, Dora Malech and Bradford Gray Telford relax after their readings

 

 

 


 
 
 

Joseph Harrison readings

 

Joseph Harrison, author of Someone Else's Name and Identity Theft, and Waywiser's Senior American Editor, will read from his work at the following venues between now and the end of September:

 

Saturday, August 29, 7:30 pm
The Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street Covent Garden, London


Saturday, September 12, 7:00 pm
The Lemon Monkey Cafe
188 Stoke Newington High Street, London


Sunday, September 13, 8:00 pm
The Crypt Bar, Jekyll and Hyde Pub
112 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

 


 

 

Cody Walker and Eric McHenry reading

Thursday May 14th, 8-9 pm,

Seattle Museum of Art

 

For further details about this event, please click on the link below:

Seattle Art Museum Reading

 


 

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize celebratory reading

Saturday November 1st 2008, 6:00 pm

Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Washington DC

 

 

The three winners of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize – Rose Kelleher (2007), Erica Dawson (2006) and Morri Creech (2005) – read from their prize-winning collections – Bundle o' Tinder, Big-Eyed Afraid and Field Knowledge, respectively – at Washington DC's foremost independent bookstore. The event was open to all and was followed by a book-signing.

 

 


 

"A Fine Excess"
A Three-Day Celebration of Poetry

April 2nd - 4th 2008, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

This event, which was sponsored by the The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, Emory's Creative Writing Program and The Waywiser Press, and received additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts (USA), featured thirteen poets associated with The Waywiser Press and its imprint Between The Lines.

 

Earl Lewis, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University
welcoming everyone to A Fine Excess

 

 

Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, opening A Fine Excess

 

 

Morri Creech, winner of the first Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

 

 

Erica Dawson, winner of the second Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

 

 

Jeffrey Harrison

 

 

Joseph Harrison

 

 

Eric McHenry

 

 

J. D. McClatchy

 

 

Mary Jo Salter

 

 

W. D. Snodgrass

 

 

Mark Strand

 

 

Deborah Warren

 

 

Clive Watkins

 

 

Richard Wilbur

 

 

Greg Williamson

 

 

Steve Enniss,
Director, Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library, Robert M. Woodruff Library, Emory University

 

 

Eric McHenry interviewing W.D. Snodgrass

 

 

Joseph Harrison interviewing Mark Strand

 

 

Philip Hoy interviewing Richard Wilbur

 

 

Philip Hoy and W. D. Snodgrass

 

 

Jonathan Post, Mary Jo Salter, Mark Strand

 

 

Mary Jo Salter and Kevin Young

 

 

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A crowded Emory bookstand

 



 

 

Launch of Erica Dawson's Big-Eyed Afraid,
winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, 2006
Sunday, November 11th 2007, 1pm

Erica Dawson

Erica Dawson read from her prize-winning collection and signed copies of her debut volume at a packed Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Washington DC. Barbara Meade, one of the bookstore's owners, introduced the event and then handed over to Philip Hoy, Waywiser's managing editor, who spoke about the background to the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Mary Jo Salter, the 2006 contest's judge, then introduced the reading, describing Ms Dawson as one of the finest and most promising poets of her generation.

 
Barbara Meade introducing the event
 
 
Mary Jo Salter introducing Erica Dawson
 
 
Erica Dawson reading from Big-Eyed Afraid
 
 
Answering questions from the audience
 


(For further infdormation about this book, please click here)

 


 

 

Launch of Morri Creech's Field Knowledge,
winner of the first annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
November 11th 2006, 5:00 pm


Morri Creech read from his prize-winning collection of poems at Chapters Literary Bookstore in Washington DC. The event was part of the 4th DC International Poetry Festival. Waywiser's managing editor, Philip Hoy, introduced the event by talking about how the Hecht Prize had come into existence, and J. D. McClatchy, the inaugural contest's final judge, then introduced the reading.

Morri Creech reading from Field Knowledge
 
Answering questions from the audience
 




(For further information about this book, please click here)

 


 



Launch of Greg Heath's The Entire Animal,
July 26th 2006


Greg Heath spoke about and read from The Entire Animal, his first novel, at Waterstone's in Derby.
The press would like to thank the store for its hospitality and the large audience for its enthusiastic reception.



 
Greg Heath addressing the audience
 



 
Book signing
 
 

 
More book signing
 


 
Still more book signing
 




Launch of Ian Parks's Shell Island, June 10th 2006


Ian Parks read from Shell Island, his new collection of poems, at a launch party held at the Flux Gallery in Leeds.
The event was well-attended, and the audience hugely appreciative.


 
Ian Parks, following his reading and book signing
 


 
Talking to another Waywiser author, the novelist Matthew Yorke
 


 
Some of the guests enjoying the gallery's hospitality





Poetry Reading by Eric McHenry, May 7th 2006


Eric McHenry read from his forthcoming
collection, Potscrubber Lullabies, at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library on Sunday May 7th. The event was hosted by the Edward and Mary Wilder Society, and attracted an audience of 100+.


Eric McHenry photographed with his son Evan at the May 7th reading. Behind them is a three-dimensional model of Potscrubber Lullabies, the maker of which receives Waywiser's congratulations. Readers may be relieved to hear that the real thing, which was published by us on June 22nd, measures only 198mm x 129mm (approximately 7.75" x 5"). For more information about the book and its author, please click on the cover.
 



 

Poetry Reading by Clive Watkins, November 26th 2005


Waywiser author and editor Clive Watkins read from Jigsaw and his more recent work at the Flux Gallery in
Hyde Park, Leeds.

Clive Watkins with fellow poet Ian Parks
at the reception
 
 


 

Pre-publication Launch Party for Richard Wollheim's Germs, October 7th 2004



On October 7th 2004, Waywiser threw a party to celebrate its publication later that month of the late Richard Wollheim's last book, Germs: A Memoir of Childhood. The guest speaker was David Pears, Professor of Philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, and one of Wollheim's oldest friends.

Professor David Pears, preparing to address the 100+ guests who attended the book launch

Other friends of Wollheim's among the guests at the launch: Lady Isaiah Berlin (left), Lord Gowrie (centre)

Jonathan Miller, with Piranesi

Jonathan Meades with Rupert Wollheim

Polly Toynbee, Bruno Wollheim, Jonathan Meades, Karl Miller

David Wolton, Jane Miller
David Wolton, Jane Miller





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