Hamish Whyte was born near Glasgow where he lived until moving to Edinburgh in 2004. He has had several collections of poetry published, and edited many anthologies of Scottish literature, the most recent being Scottish Cats (Birlinn 2013). He runs the award-winning Mariscat Press.
He has worked as a librarian, reviewed crime fiction for Scotland on Sunday and has been an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Scottish Literature, Glasgow University. In 2007 he was awarded, with Diana Hendry, a joint Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship .
He is a member of Shore Poets, Edinburgh, and plays drums with two groups: Dekoy and The Self-Righteous Brothers.
His prose memoir Morgan & Me affectionally recalls a thirty-year connection with poet Edwin Morgan, from the perspective of both publisher and personal friend.
His most recent HappenStance publication, Testimonies, is a set of 'found' poems drawn from Scottish civil court records, an insight into human nature at once dark and grimly entertaining.
Publications
- Testimonies (Scotland 1623 –1965), HappenStance, 2022
- Morgan & Me, A Memoir, HappenStance, 2020
- Paper Cut, Shoestring Press, 2020
- Things We Never Knew, Shoestring Press, 2016
- Now the Robin, HappenStance, 2018
- Hannah, Are You Listening?, HappenStance, 2013
- The Unswung Axe, Shoestring Press, 2012
- A Bird in the Hand, Shoestring Press, 2008
- Window on the Garden, Essence Press/Botanic Press, 2006
- Siva in Lamlash, minimal missive, 1991
- Rooms , Aquila Press, 1986
- apple on an orange day, Autolycus Press, 1972
Translations
- Take 5, no.7, Shoestring Press, 2007 [contributor]
- More Martial Mottoes, Galdragon Press, 1999
- Martial Mottoes, Galdragon Press, 1998
As editor
- Edwin Morgan, Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020