Paul Malgrati
@paulmalgrati.bsky.social
Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
The new episode of @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast, hosted by our EC member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, focuses on the poetry of Dundee and features Taylor Dyson and Erin Farley.
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · last wk.New Episode Out! 🏴🏭🖋️ pod.link/1865430519
Dr Paul Malgrati, lecturer @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies hosts new @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast pod.link/1865430519
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 3w agoJust had a fantastic double interview with Dr Erin Farley, Dundee’s best literary historian, and Taylor Dyson, Dundee’s best young poet & performer in Scots. New episode on “Dundee poetry: Past and Present” coming out in the next few days.
“Scots poets might have a few lessons to teach the French” “Towards a Post-Colonial Alliance?”: @paulmalgrati.bsky.social offers perspectives on Franco-Scots #poetry #translation, exploring questions of voice, place, & power #BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet 🇫🇷🏴 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/towa...
Towards a Post-Colonial Alliance? Some Perspectives on Franco-Scots Poetry Translation - The Bottle Imp
I would like to thank The Bottle Imp for inviting me to reflect on my work as a translator of both French and Scots. In this article — the first I have written on this topic — I outline a few ideas re...
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New publications by our members: the article 'Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns's "To a Haggis"' by Gerry Carruthers and @paulmalgrati.bsky.social has been published in the IRSS @uguelphscottish.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social. Available in open access!
Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies@uguelphscottish.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣New issue of the IRSS now online! euppublishing.com/toc/irss/51/1 Featured Article is FREE to access: Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ by Gerard Carruthers and Paul Malgrati. Full issue 30 Days FREE (CODE: 30IRSS) @edinburghup.bsky.social
📣New issue of the IRSS now online! euppublishing.com/toc/irss/51/1 Featured Article is FREE to access: Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ by Gerard Carruthers and Paul Malgrati. Full issue 30 Days FREE (CODE: 30IRSS) @edinburghup.bsky.social
Great to see our article with Prof Gerard Carruthers published in the International Review of Scottish Studies. It’s about the origins and inspiration of Robert Burns’s address ‘To a Haggis’ – 300 years of debates on the value and quality of Scottish food. 🏴🥘 www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ | International Review of Scottish Studies
This article re-evaluates Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’—arguably, the most globally recited food poem in world literature—by situating it within a long-overlooked tradition of Scottish food patriotism....
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New publications by our members: Alan Sharp’s 'A Green Tree in Gedde' (1965) in a scholarly edition prepared by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social and Colin Mcilroy @natlibscot.bsky.social and published by @asls.org.uk. asls.org.uk/publications...
The latest episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, founded and hosted by our member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, features French historian Clément Guézais and focuses on the medieval Auld Alliance. 🇫🇷 🏴 pod.link/1865430519
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴 pod.link/1865430519
Dr Clément Guézais discussing and analysing the medieval Franco-Scottish treaties and how these represented an ideal of friendship in diplomacy: a partnership of equals, separate entities but united by a common purpose. 🏴🇫🇷 For more insight on the Auld Alliance, listen to Episode 7 (link in bio).
Dr Paul Malgrati Lecturer at UHI Institute for Northern Studies new episode of @thecarryingstream.bsky.social features Dr Clément Guézais, a French historian, lecturer at the University of Arras, and scholar of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France. pod.link/1865430519
New episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴 pod.link/1865430519
New publication day! Delighted to present this new scholarly edition of Alan Sharp’s A Green Tree in Gedde (1965): beat generation, existentialism, faith, sex, and the collision of Greenock with Paris: a forgotten classic of the Scottish 60s. Published by @asls.org.uk asls.org.uk/publications...
New publication day! Delighted to present this new scholarly edition of Alan Sharp’s A Green Tree in Gedde (1965): beat generation, existentialism, faith, sex, and the collision of Greenock with Paris: a forgotten classic of the Scottish 60s. Published by @asls.org.uk asls.org.uk/publications...
Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered as a screenwriter, but his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose”. Preorder the new edition now! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...
Annual Volume 55 (2025)
Edited by Colin McIlroy and Paul Malgrati Paperback, 504 pages Association for Scottish Literature, May 2026 Price: £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841676 Order from our bookshop “If you don’t go you can’t come…
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Had a lovely time in Edinburgh today, presenting my Franco-Scottish works, poems, and La Revue Écossaise to a group of students from La Sorbonne.
Prof Robert Crawford discussed his view of Scottish cultural identity and his lifelong attempt to disrupt the cliched, two-dimensional conception of Scotland (sometimes referred to as Caledonian Antisyygy). 🏴 Listen to the whole episode by following the link: pod.link/1865430519
Writing Scotland in the Plural – with Robert Crawford from The Carrying Stream bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/19/w...
New episode out! 🏴 Follow the link: pod.link/1865430519
The new episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, hosted by IASSL member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social, interviews poet and scholar Robert Crawford. Available on all podcast platforms.
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew episode out — with Robert Crawford, Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews and distinguished poet, whose work over the last 40 years did much to reshape in more multilingual and multicultural terms. Hope you enjoy it! 🏴 pod.link/1865430519
New episode out — with Robert Crawford, Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews and distinguished poet, whose work over the last 40 years did much to reshape in more multilingual and multicultural terms. Hope you enjoy it! 🏴 pod.link/1865430519
A few days ago, I spoke to Robert Crawford – the distinguished poet, Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature at St Andrews. We talked about Robert’s lifelong effort to celebrate the diversity of Scotland’s tradition as well as his love for Burns, Eliot and Japanese haïku! Episode coming soon.
Episode 5 of The Carrying Stream, ‘Gaelic Revival: From Czechia to the Gaìdhealtachd’, recently came out, featuring @poncarova.bsky.social Follow the link to access the full episode: pod.link/1865430519
Wonderful - unique - conversation between a French scholar-poet who writes in Scots and a Czech scholar-poet who writes in Gaelic. Paul and Petra provide a fresh European perspective on c20th Scotland, with beautiful recordings of Derick Thomson reading his poetry, and Petra hers
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 5mo agoDr Petra Johana Poncarová discussing how researching Gaelic literature inspired her own poetry in the language, mixing elements of Gaelic and Czech cultures and places. 🏴🇨🇿 Listen to the full interview by clicking on the link: pod.link/1865430519
A video drop from @thecarryingstream.bsky.social by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social. The full episode (and other conversations with Paul's brilliant guests) available at: pod.link/1865430519
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 5mo agoDr Petra Johana Poncarová discussing how researching Gaelic literature inspired her own poetry in the language, mixing elements of Gaelic and Czech cultures and places. 🏴🇨🇿 Listen to the full interview by clicking on the link: pod.link/1865430519
Dr Petra Johana Poncarová discussing how researching Gaelic literature inspired her own poetry in the language, mixing elements of Gaelic and Czech cultures and places. 🏴🇨🇿 Listen to the full interview by clicking on the link: pod.link/1865430519
Chatting to @paulmalgrati.bsky.social is a pleasure always, this time a special treat to do so for his podcast for Scottish words & ideas, @thecarryingstream.bsky.social. The episode features a new Gaelic poem of mine, 'Na Crainn', which took shape between Daoulaz in Brittany, Aberdeen, and Prague.
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis episode’s guest is Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, a native speaker of Czech who has become a distinguished scholar of Gaelic literature and an award-winning poet in Gaelic. 🏴🇨🇿 Petra’s perspective is totally unique, and I’m very glad to share this conversation with you. pod.link/1865430519
This episode’s guest is Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, a native speaker of Czech who has become a distinguished scholar of Gaelic literature and an award-winning poet in Gaelic. 🏴🇨🇿 Petra’s perspective is totally unique, and I’m very glad to share this conversation with you. pod.link/1865430519
A fair dook in the @thecarryingstream.bsky.social in bonnie Dunblane with @paulmalgrati.bsky.social - the resulting episode coming soon 🎧🌊
The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 5mo agoJust had a fantastic discussion with Dr Petra Poncarová. Petra is one of the very few Europeans who’s mastered Gaelic to the point of writing both sound scholarship about it & award-winning poetry in it. She’s got a unique perspective and I can’t wait to air the interview to you all soon! 🏴🇨🇿
