Cultured Llama, 2011–2023, was an independent publisher of poems, stories and curious things run by husband and wife team, Bob Carling (managing editor) and Maria C. McCarthy (poetry and fiction editor). Cultured Llama published forty two print books and two e-books before going out to pasture.
Thanks are due to Anne-Marie Jordan (non-fiction editor), Mark Holihan (graphic design), Maggie Drury (cover art and Cultured Llama logo), as well as many more who contributed cover art and assisted in so many ways.
Cultured Llama was a ‘not-for-loss’ enterprise, operated on a shoestring with no external funding, often dependent on the goodwill of volunteers.
Books published:
Poetry:
| 978-1-9164128-4-2 | strange fruits (eBook) | Maria C. McCarthy | Sep-2018 |  |
| 978-1-9164128-3-5 | Unusual Places (eBook) | Louise Tondeur | Sep-2018 |  |
| 978-1-9164128-2-8 | The Hospital | Ben Barton | Sep-2018 |  |
| 978-1-9164128-0-4 | Family Likeness | Michael Curtis | Jul-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-2-6 | The Other Guernica: Poems Inspired by Spanish Art | Derek Sellen | Jun-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-1-9 | Flood | Jessica Mookherjee | Apr-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-4-0 | Hearth | Rose Cook | Nov-2017 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-3-3 | The Year of the Crab | Gordon Meade | Sep-2017 |  |
| Privately printed | There Are Boats on the Orchard | Maria C. McCarthy | Jul-2017 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-0-2 | After Hours | David Cooke | Apr-2017 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-4-2 | Memorandum: Poems for the Fallen | Vanessa Gebbie | Aug-2016 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-8-0 | There Are No Foreign Lands | Mark Holihan | May-2016 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-7-3 | The Light Box | Rosie Jackson | Mar-2016 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-9-6 | Les Animots: A Human Bestiary | Gordon Meade | Sep-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-5-9 | Zygote Poems | Richard Thomas | Jul-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-8-9 | Automatic Writing | John Brewster | Jul-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-7-2 | Cold Light of Morning | Julian Colton | May-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-4-1 | The Fire in Me Now | Michael Curtis | Nov-2014 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-5-8 | Short of Breath | Vivien Jones | Apr-2014 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-0-3 | Sounds of the Real World | Gordon Meade | Aug-2013 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-9-5 | Notes from a Bright Field | Rose Cook | May-2013 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-8-8 | The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood | Hilda Sheehan | Feb-2013 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-4-0 | Unauthorised Person | Philip Kane | Oct-2012 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-5-7 | The Strangest Thankyou | Richard Thomas | Oct-2012 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-3-3 | A Radiance | Bethany W. Pope | Mar-2012 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-0-2 | strange fruits | Maria C. McCarthy | Mar-2011 | |
Short fiction:
| 978-1-9164128-1-1 | London Calling and Other Stories | Jeremy Page | Aug-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-9-5 | Unusual Places | Louise Tondeur | Jul-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-7-1 | Dip Flash | Jonathan Pinnock | Mar-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-5-7 | A Witness of Waxwings | Alison Lock | Dec-2017 |  |
| 978-0-9957381-6-4 | In the Wild Wood | Frances Gapper | Jun-2017 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-2-6 | A Short History of Synchronised Breathing and other stories | Vanessa Gebbie | Feb-2017 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-1-9 | Who Killed Emil Kreisler? | Nigel Jarrett | Jul-2016 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-9-7 | Only the Visible Can Vanish | Anna Maconochie | Jul-2016 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-3-4 | In Margate by Lunchtime | Maggie Harris | Feb-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-2-8 | The Lost of Syros | Emma Timpany | Jan-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-1-0 | As Long as it Takes | Maria C. McCarthy | Jan-2014 |  |
| 978-0-9568921-6-4 | Canterbury Tales on a Cockcrow Morning | Maggie Harris | Aug-2012 |  |
Curious things:
| 978-0-9957381-8-8 | Solid Mental Grace: Listening to the Music of Yes | Simon Barrow | Feb-2018 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-1-1 | The Music of Business: Business Excellence Fused with Music | Peter Cook | Nov-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-3-5 | The Hungry Writer | Lynne Rees | Sep-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-2-7 | Do It Yourself: A History of Music in Medway | Stephen H. Morris | Mar-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-0-4 | Punk Rock People Management: A No-Nonsense Guide to Hiring, Inspiring and Firing Staff | Peter Cook | Feb-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9932119-6-6 | The Ecology of Everyday Things | Mark Everard | Feb-2015 |  |
| 978-0-9926485-6-5 | Digging Up Paradise: Potatoes, People and Poetry in the Garden of England | Sarah Salway | May-2014 |  |
Maria C. McCarthy’s Learning to be Irish, strange fruits, As Long As It Takes and There Are Boats on the Orchard can be purchased by contacting maria(at)medwaymaria.co.uk.
