About Waywiser
The Waywiser Press, a small independent company, was founded in 2001 and has its head office in Oxfordshire and a subsidiary in Baltimore, USA.
Waywiser specialises in modern poetry, publishing work by established writers such as Robert Conquest, Anthony Hecht, Mark Strand, W.D. Snodgrass and Richard Wilbur as well as by newcomers such as Morri Creech, Erica Dawson, Carrie Jerrell, Dora Malech and Chris Preddle. The Press’s most recent publication is Joining Music with Reason, a 440-page anthology of work by the thirty or so poets, half of them British and half of them American, who came to read for Christopher Ricks in Oxford during his five years as Professor of Poetry at the University. Waywiser runs the annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, which is open to anyone with a maximum of one previously published collection, and rewards its winner with a purse of £1,750 or $3,000 and publication on both sides of the Atlantic.
Waywiser publishes not just poetry but literary books of all kinds, including works of fiction, memoir, criticism and history. Waywiser also has an imprint, Between The Lines, which publishes book-length interviews with senior contemporary poets: the list includes a number of the names above but also John Ashbery, Seamus Heaney, Donald Justice and Charles Simic.
Featured Titles
 | Anterooms: Poems & Translations by Richard Wilbur "For 60 years, Richard Wilbur has remained in the front rank of contemporary poets" - Jay Parini, The Guardian £8.99 |  | The Hecht Prize Anthology, 2005-2009 by Joseph Harrison An anthology of the finalists for Waywiser’s transatlantic Poetry Prize. £9.99 |
 | Mommy Daddy Evan Sage by Eric McHenry "If you see a vulture, don’t play dead." £8.99 |  | The Uncertainty Principle by Mark Kraushaar Mark Kraushaar’s new collection represents a tentative, awkward, often funny though frequently heart-breaking struggle to find a path to meaning in the world. £8.99 |
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