Welcome to the website of the award-winning Mariscat Press, and its editor, the poet Hamish Whyte.

To order any of our pamphlets (free p&p), please email hamish.whyte@btinternet.com. Pay by bank transfer (Bank of Scotland / Sort code 80 15 59 / Account no. 00413102). 

Mariscat Press

Mariscat Cat

Mariscat is now one of the longest-running self-funded small presses in Scotland. The ‘jewel in the Scottish poetry crown’ (Ian McMillan), Mariscat has twice won the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award (2023 & 2015). The press is known for its tastefully designed publications and a quality backlist which includes work by figures such as Douglas Dunn, Diana Hendry, Stewart Conn, Jackie Kay and Michael Longley, as well as many publications by Edwin Morgan, Whyte’s friend for over 30 years.

Recent Publications

Hamish Whyte

Hamish Whyte is known for his highly individual style, at once immediate and unexpected. HappenStance Press has published two of Whyte’s poetry pamphlets (Hannah, Are You Listening? and Now the Robin), his memoir of the poet Edwin Morgan (Morgan & Me) and, most recently, Testimonies (Scotland 1623-1965) a sequence of found poems based on the historic records of Scottish Criminal Courts. Shoestring Press has published five collections: A Bird in the Hand (2008), The Unswung Axe (2012), Paper Cut (2020), Things We Never Knew (2016), and A Spell of Watching: New and Selected Poems (2024).