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Welcome to our growing resource on poetry publishers with Scottish lists.

We are delighted to have entered into informal reciprocal partnership agreements with these publishers and we are grateful to them for giving us permission to include sample poems by their Scottish poets on our website.

Bloodaxe Books

Bloodaxe has revolutionised poetry publishing in Britain over the past 34 years.

Calder Wood Press

Calder Wood Press is an independent, unsubsidised press specialising in poetry books and occasionally collections of short stories.

Carcanet Press

Carcanet Press is one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time. Now in its fifth decade, Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as a range of inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and literary criticism.

Fras Publications

Fras Publications was established in 2004 as an adjunct to Fras, a roughly bi-annual literary journal.

HappenStance Press

HappenStance is an independent publisher specialising in poetry pamphlets. Based in Scotland, the press was originated by Helena Nelson in 2005 and she continues as main editor/blogger.

Luath Press

Luath Press was established in 1981 in the heart of Burns country, and is now based a few steps up the road from Burns' first lodgings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Luath offers you distinctive writing with a hint of unexpected pleasures.

Mariscat Press

Mariscat Press was founded in 1982 by Kevin McCarra and Hamish Whyte, initially to publish David Neilson's Glaswegian translations of Catullus.

Polygon

Who are we? A dynamic, creative publishing team that aims to publish the very best of new writing – poetry, fiction, biography and music – from Scotland and well beyond.

Red Squirrel Press (Scotland)

Red Squirrel Press was founded in 2006 and publishes poetry (full-length collections and pamphlets), crime fiction novels, novellas and non-fiction. It aims to publish new and neglected poets and writers.

Salt Publishing

Salt’s origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia.

Two Ravens Press

Two Ravens Press is a fiercely independent publisher of contemporary British and international literature, based on a working croft in the Outer Hebrides.