The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Hamish Whyte

Old copperplate writing on a white background.

Murders, thefts and debts, quarrels and ‘domestics’

Jane Routh reviews Testimonies by Hamish Whyte (HappenStance Press, 2022)
Ink stencil style picture of a cat (the Mariscat cat) on a cream watercolour background.

Vivat Mariscat

The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press
Black text on white reads: from 'Testimonies (Scotland 1623 - 1930)' by Hamish Whyte

from Testimonies (Scotland 1623 – 1930)

by Hamish Whyte — PAISLEY, 1684 // Margaret Whythill, spouse to James Love, / said she saw James Algie, a merchant, bring his wife / to the close mouth and throw her down / in the strand and saw her rise again