Welcome

Mariscat Press was founded in Glasgow in 1982 by Hamish Whyte and Kevin McCarra, initially to publish David Neilson’s Glaswegian versions of Catullus, but the bug bit and the press went on to publish over 50 poetry books and pamphlets over the next 28 years by writers including:

Edwin Morgan, Gael Turnbull, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Brian McCabe, Graham Fulton, Brian Whittingham, Alison Prince, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Gerry Loose, Gerrie Fellows, Douglas Lipton, Christopher Salvesen, James McGonigal, Donny O’Rourke, Richard Price, Anna Crowe, Valerie Thornton, Diana Hendry, Tom Pow, Ian McDonough, Stewart Conn, Angela McSeveney, Lesley Harrison and Susie Maguire. 

McCarra left in 1997 since when Whyte has concentrated on pamphlets, moving to Edinburgh in 2004.  Mariscat has been short-listed for the Callum McDonald poetry pamphlet award nearly every year since it began in 2001 and runner-up twice.

The aim has always been to publish poetry in affordable editions, with attention paid to presentation. 

‘let your staples shine’

(Jim Carruth, ‘Pamphleteer’)