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Hamish Whyte

b.1947

Hamish Whyte © Gerry Cambridge
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Hamish Whyte was born in Giffnock, Renfrewshire, and worked as a librarian and bibliographer in Glasgow before moving to Edinburgh in 2004. For more than thirty-five years he has run Mariscat Press, publishing the poetry of Gael Turnbull, Edwin Morgan and many others, in well-presented pamphlet form. Mariscat won the Michael Marks Pamphlet Publisher of the Year Award, and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, both in 2015.

Whyte has edited anthologies of Scottish poetry, including Mungo’s Tongues: Glasgow poems 1630-1990 (1993) and Scottish Cats (2013), and several issues of New Writing Scotland. He has also published, edited and written on his friend Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s first National Poet. Whyte’s own poetry has appeared in various Scottish magazines, he has many pamphlets to his name and three full collections have been published by Shoestring Press. He is a member of Edinburgh’s Shore Poets.

Read the poems

  • The Great Journey
  • Book Dusters
  • Precious 10 Minutes
  • The Theatre Royal’s Gorgeous Transformation to the Hall of a Thousand Lights
  • The slight hearing loss
  • Machrie Moor
  • Between
  • Festive Family Photo

Selected Bibliography

A Bird in the Hand (Shoestring Press, 2008)
The Unswung Axe (Shoestring Press, 2012)
Things We Never Knew (Shoestring Press, 2016)

pamphlets:

Rooms (Aquila Pamphlet Poetry, 1986)
Siva in Lamlash (Minimal Missive, 1991)
Martial Mottoes (Galdragon Press, 1998)
Christmasses (Vennel Press, 1998)
More Martial Mottoes (Galdragon Press, 1999)
Sappho Said It (M.M., 2002)
Bidie-in (with Diana Hendry) (uneven, 2002)
Window on the Garden (Botanic Press & Essence Press, 2006)
Heart to Risk (with Diana Hendry) (uneven, 2008)
Hannah, Are You Listening? (HappenStance, 2013)
Green Fire & Bright Hopes; 12 poems for Christmas (with Diana Hendry) (Mariscat Press, 2014)
Now the Robin (HappenStance, 2018)

As editor: anthologies:

Noise and Smoky Breath: an illustrated anthology of Glasgow poems 1900-1983 (Third Eye Centre/Glasgow Libraries, 1983)
The Scottish Cat (Aberdeen University Press, 1987)
Mungo’s Tongues: Glasgow poems 1630-1990 (Mainstream, 1993)
A Scottish Feast: an anthology of food and eating (Argyll, 1996) With Catherine Brown.
An Arran Anthology (Mercat, 1997)
Back to the Light: new Glasgow poems (Mariscat/Glasgow City Council, 2001) With Donny O’Rourke.
Best Scottish Poems of 2004 (Scottish Poetry Library online anthology, 2004)
Poems United: A Commonwealth anthology (Scottish Poetry Library/Black and White Publishing, 2007)  With Diana Hendry.
Scottish Cats: an anthology of poems (Birlinn, 2013)

Further Information

Hamish Whyte’s website (& Mariscat Press)

From the Library Catalogue

Publications about Hamish Whyte
Publications by Hamish Whyte

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