Hamish Whyte
![Old copperplate writing on a white background.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TESTIMONIES-320x225.jpg)
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.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Mariscat-320x225.jpg)
Vivat Mariscat
The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press about current Scottish Galvanisers, the timidity of contemporary review culture, and to blurb or not to blurb
![Black text on white reads: from 'Testimonies (Scotland 1623 - 1930)' by Hamish Whyte](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/from-Testimonies-Scotland-1623-–-1930-1-320x225.jpg)
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