MARISCAT SAMPLER THREE
When Mariscat won the Michael Marks Poetry Publishers’ Award in 2023, we took it as an invitation to try something new. Alongside our much-loved single-author pamphlets, we began producing samplers — one pamphlet offering a first taste of three distinctive new poets.
Sampler 3 gathers compelling new work by Mark Russell, Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell and Sarah Barnsley, poets who explore memory, love and loss with clarity and wit. Arriving just in time for Christmas, Sampler 3 is a small gift in itself.
ANDREW SCLATER QUITE JOYFUL
Welcome to Sclaterland: a world that’s strange yet familiar. Quite Joyful is a collection that is at once humorous and disturbing, offering both consolation and challenge. These are poems that ‘surprise and move …with their insight and emotional depth.’ (Beverley Bie Brahic)
Andrew Sclater is a Scottish poet living in Paris. He has published poems in Ambit, Best Scottish Poems, The Dark Horse, Magma, New Writing Scotland, Poetry Review and elsewhere.
STEWART CONN OUT OF THE BLUE
In his fifth Mariscat pamphlet, Stewart Conn reflects on childhood and age, place and identity, love and loss. Both conversational and contained, this collection’s mellow wit will captivate with its warmth and humanity.
Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow, grew up in Ayrshire and has for many years lived in Edinburgh, whose inaugural Makar he was, from 2002 to 2005. In 2025 he was given The Saltire Society’s prestigious Fletcher of Saltoun Award for Arts and Humanities.
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