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Welcome to our growing directory of Scottish poetry publishers.

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

Gaelic

Foillsichearan

Fàilte dhan eòlaire fhoillsichearan Albannach againn, a tha a’ sìor fhàs.

Tha sinn toilichte gu bheil sinn ag obair ann an com-pàirteachas le cuid de na foillsichearan seo agus tha sinn taingeil gu bheil iad a’ tabhann dhuinn an cuid fhoillsichean, agus gu bheil iad a’ toirt dhuinn cead, bho àm gu àm, bàrdachd len cuid bhàird a chur air an làraich-lìn againn.

Arc Publications

Arc publishes contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the work of overseas poets in translation.
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Bloodaxe Books

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

Here at Burning Eye Books we think of ourselves an an upstart indie publishing co.
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Canongate Books

Canongate was founded in 1973.
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Carcanet Press

Carcanet Press is one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time.
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CB Editions

CB editions publishes short fiction, poetry, translations and other work which, as the Guardian noted, ‘might otherwise fall through the cracks between the big publishers’.
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Enitharmon Press

Enitharmon Press is the most venerable of the independent poetry presses.
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Faber and Faber

Faber has published manyScottish poets over the decades.
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Fras Publications

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

Grace Note Publications welcomes you to its collections of books and audio in Gaelic and Scots. Its aim is to create resources to preserve the uniqueness culture of Scotland.
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Grey Hen Press

Grey Hen is a small independent press which publishes poetry by older women, concentrating in the first instance on producing themed anthologies.
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HappenStance Press

HappenStance Press published a wide range of both pamphlets and books between 2005 and 2017.
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