In December 2023 Mariscat Press won the Publishers’ Award of the Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Competition. We were delighted. The generous prize money enabled us to open a submissions window. We were inundated. We read work by so many good poets that we decided to publish, along with our usual single-author pamphlets, a Sampler of three poets. This first one offers poems about memories, real and imagined, mysterious birds and animals – and gliding.