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. Four collections have been published by Shoestring Press: Paper Cut (2020); Things We Never Knew (2016); The Unswung Axe (2012) and A Bird in the Hand (2008). HappenStance Press has published two of Whyte’s pamphlets, Morgan & Me, a personal and evocative memoir of Whyte’s decades-long friendship with the poet Edwin Morgan and, most recently Testimonies (Scotland 1623-1965) a sequence of found poems based on the historic records of Scottish Criminal Courts.