Paul Malgrati
@paulmalgrati.bsky.social
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
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
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
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’). 🇫🇷🏴
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:
on.soundcloud.com/Agth7z991bhQ...
Here’s the link:
on.soundcloud.com/Agth7z991bhQ...
August 25, 2025 at 6:29 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:
on.soundcloud.com/Agth7z991bhQ...
Here’s the link:
on.soundcloud.com/Agth7z991bhQ...
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
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!
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
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!
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
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. 🇫🇷⚒️🏴
Pleased with this commendation from my amazing students in Highlands & islands heritage and literature @insuhi.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Pleased with this commendation from my amazing students in Highlands & islands heritage and literature @insuhi.bsky.social
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
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.
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
Event is online and free (see link ⬇️).
@insuhi.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 5:03 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
Event is online and free (see link ⬇️).
@insuhi.bsky.social
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.
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April 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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.
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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
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 🇫🇷🏴
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
Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️
‘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!
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
‘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!
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!
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! 🏴🇫🇷
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
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! 🏴🇫🇷
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! 🏴🇫🇷
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)!
Had a fine chat about Burns, haggis and politics. 🏴
Airing live tomorrow at 6.15pm (UK time)!
January 24, 2025 at 8:40 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)!
Had a fine chat about Burns, haggis and politics. 🏴
Airing live tomorrow at 6.15pm (UK time)!
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!
It’s wild out there - stay safe everyone!
January 24, 2025 at 1:47 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!
It’s wild out there - stay safe everyone!
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
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’
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
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… 🏴
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
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.
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
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 🏴🇫🇷
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.
‘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
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.
‘Another one that’s gone - it’s sad - used to see him outside his house most days’ says the local taxi driver.
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-...
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
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-...
Get my book for a tenner - the cheapest it’s ever been! 🏴
Would make a great Burns Supper present! 😉
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-robert-...
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
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. 🇫🇷🏴
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-...
£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
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-...
£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-...
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
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.