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Paul Malgrati
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Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
It was braw reading some poetry at Dundee’s monthly Scots language nicht on Friday. A gaitherin o muckle wirth fir Dundee toon a culture! @elfiepicket.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Pleased to receive @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social’s brilliant collection of poems responding to Robert Fergusson, the bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. I’m also glad to have a wee Franco-Scots piece in there (riffing on Fergusson’s Jacobite/apocalyptical eclogue, ‘The Ghaists’). 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
September 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The podcast of Revue Ecossaise is back with a new episode on Scotland’s European identity and the state of Scottish culture, politics and tourism after Brexit. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Here’s the link:
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August 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Successful summer for literary tourism: from the Wordsworths’s home in Grasmere to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s house in Chambéry. Strong radical, eco-conscious and Romantic connections between them—with Robert Burns as a big missing link!
August 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!
August 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Nice to see my wee translations of Jules Mousseron’s mining poems in Northwords Now—from Northern French Picard into Scots. His mouse poem is a great industrial take on Burns’s agricultural precedent. 🇫🇷⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
August 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pleased with this commendation from my amazing students in Highlands & islands heritage and literature @insuhi.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Looking forward to attending the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow on Wednesday to reflect on Scottish nationality and literature.
April 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Next Thursday, I'll share results from the project that’s busied my mind for the past 3 years: a fun bit of mental wrestling with 'The Caledonian Antisyzgy'. Join me to escape the paradox and unlock Scotland's infinite possibilities.

Event is online and free (see link ⬇️).

@insuhi.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Finally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration.

(1/3)
April 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Had a lovely time last night at @ifecosse, reading and discussing poetry in Scots, English and French. Fellow Scottish-continentals, Elodie Laügt and Anne Pia, are brilliant writers and it was a privilege sharing this with them. Great turnout and fine organising by Lorna Milne 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
February 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️
February 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
‘The Battle for the Bard’

Had an interview with @neilmackay.bsky.social earlier this week and he’s done a brilliant job at summarising my book on Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Available today in your local newsagent!
January 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
At the Wallace Monument for Burns Night (giving talk later on Burns Night & Empire at Stirling Uni).

Thought it’d make sense to reshare my translation of Burns’s‘Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled’ into French to mark the occasion.

Happy Burns Night everyone! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷
January 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Was a total pleasure recording Loose Ends’ special Burns Night episode at BBC Radio 4 with Clive Anderson, Susie McCabe, Meredith Brook, Carina Contini and the brilliant Peat & Diesel.

Had a fine chat about Burns, haggis and politics. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Airing live tomorrow at 6.15pm (UK time)!
January 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If you’d told me I’d experience my first Scottish cyclone from Glasgow’s BBC Studios, I wouldn’t have believed you.

It’s wild out there - stay safe everyone!
January 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM

Big thanks to Dundee Burns Club for this thoughtful gift: a very rare 1984 poster marking the 10th anniversary of the Scottish-Soviet Burns Celebration. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚩

‘It’s coming yet for a’ that
That man to man
The world o’er
Shall brothers be
For a’ that’
December 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Here’s AI’s attempt to illustrate my research work from the past semester. Two pieces forthcoming in 2025: different themes and yet a clear common thread… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
December 24, 2024 at 12:07 PM
In the National today. Titles and subtitles are way too provocative for my liking, but it’s a decent summary of the kind of questions asked in my book’s conclusion. So far, it’s angered both cybernats and unionist trolls, which I suppose is a healthy place to be.
December 22, 2024 at 1:50 PM
La Revue Ecossaise will return in January as a brand new podcast - six episodes per year covering key aspects of Scottish culture, history and politics. And all in French of course 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷
December 21, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Pilgrimage to Stromness, where George Mackay Brown lived and worked most of his life.

‘Another one that’s gone - it’s sad - used to see him outside his house most days’ says the local taxi driver.
December 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Special deal from @edinburghup.bsky.social for St Andrews weekend!

Get my book for a tenner - the cheapest it’s ever been! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Would make a great Burns Supper present! 😉

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-robert-...
December 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Jules Mousseron (1868-1943) was a miner from Northern France who wrote poetry in ‘Rouchi’, the working-class dialect of Picardie. He was also a keen reader of Robert Burns, the ploughman poet, who inspired his ode ‘To a Pit Moose’. Here’s my translation of that poem from Rouchi into Scots. 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM
My book, ‘Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics (1914-3014)’ is just out as paperback with @edinburghup.bsky.social

£21 instead of the £80 hardback!

From unionism to nationalism: the first study of Burns’s political afterlife in 20c Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-robert-...
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Lectured last week on ‘Dear Frankie’ (2004), Shona Auerbach’s beautiful yet unjustly forgotten debut. Memorable shots of Greenock, between the urban greys of single motherhood and the firth-bound, green-blue dream of a sailor-father for the deaf bairn Frankie.
November 15, 2024 at 4:33 PM