Paul Malgrati

Braw times yesternight at the early St Andrews dinner of Dundee Burns Club.
It was my first time delivering the Toast to Scotland and St Andrew (my middle namesake) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Braw times yesternight at the early St Andrews dinner of Dundee Burns Club.
It was my first time delivering the Toast to Scotland and St Andrew (my middle namesake) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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

L'Écosse et le monde (2/3) - Nos aventures francossaises Aujourd’hui, on va parler des relations entre la France et l’Écosse. Alors évidemment, on aurait pu reparler de l’Auld Alliance, on aurait pu évoquer les jumelages, accords politiques, la recherche sc

The latest podcast of La Revue Ecossaise is online to mark the 730th anniversary of the Auld Alliance. We talk about Franco-Scottish links today 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

on.soundcloud.com/Plk1o6y6AVAY...

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’). 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks for the kind post, Bill :) A religious prequel, looking into the Disruption along the lines we discussed several years ago, would be a great addendum. One day! 😃

Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics

Just finished reading @paulmalgrati.bsky.social 's masterly Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics. Full of fascinating insights into the way social, political and cultural factors mould historical memory. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-robert-...

Proud of our PhD student Sarah Squire presenting on heritage and conviviality at Charles University Prague @insuhi.bsky.social @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

Looks enthralling!

Ullrich Kockel from @insuhi.bsky.social presenting on heritage and displacement at Charles University Prague @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

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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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!

@insuhi.bsky.social

The 7th International St Magnus Conference Call for Papers Theme: “Borne on a Carrying Stream”: How Water has Shaped Heritage, Identity and Power The Institute for Northern Studies, UHI, is proud to announce the seventh International St Magnus …

Approaching deadline: Call for Papers from UHI Institute for Northern Studies inviting presentations in Scottish studies at its 7th Internationak St Magnus Conference (15-17 April 2026).

The theme is “Water” – deadline for submissions is 31 August.

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is offering a PhD scholarship on “Robert Burns & the Environment” – part of a new research strand on Burns, the Environment & Sustainable Cultural Heritage

DEADLINE 18 AUGUST
#C18th #Romanticism
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Good question! I think a good place to start is Freeman’s ´Fergusson and the Scots Humanist Compromise’. ‘The King’s Birthday in Edinburgh’ is also a great poem to analyse through a Jacobite lens.

Thanks, Rhona! 😊 Likewise!

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!

This is a great regional magazine for new literature with a particular emphasis on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. What’s more, it is free. It should be more widely appreciated.

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. 🇫🇷⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great to see this piece from John Scott, who studied Scottish minority languages with me last term. He’s a fine recruit for our Cultural & Heritage course @insuhi.bsky.social

Pleased with this commendation from my amazing students in Highlands & islands heritage and literature @insuhi.bsky.social

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...

“Scots poets might have a few lessons to teach the French”

In “Towards a Post-Colonial Alliance?”, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social offers some perspectives on Franco-Scots #poetry #translation, exploring questions of voice, place, & power
#BastilleDay 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/towa...

Jean-Luc Mélenchon | Marxism, Mass Movements, and the Magic of Elections Jean-Luc Mélenchon was for many years a leading member of the French Socialist Party. He broke with the Socialists in 2008 and founded the movement that is now La France Insoumise. He stood in the …

Thoroughly recommended

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/07/04/j...

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Merci beaucoup, Rhona 😊

New in @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social: @paulmalgrati.bsky.social reviews 'Esther', a play in Scots by David Kinloch, published by Rob A. Mackenzie through the Blue Diode Press pamphlet series.

👉 Review: tinyurl.com/ycydu4hh
👉 Book: www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

Shout out to the INS staff @thinkuhi.bsky.social HISA awards....Highly Commended Most Inspiring Lecturer Dr Paul Malgrati and nominated Above & Beyond Staff Award Dr Andrew Lind.

"Now, the Inglis revival reaches a new milestone with Esther, a poetic play by David Kinloch, published by Rob Mackenzie’s Edinburgh-based Blue Diode Press."

TONIGHT: hear David Kinloch talk about Esther Inglis and read from his new work about her:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-diode...

Esther Inglis is having a richly deserved moment, and it’s brilliant.

"I’ll MAK YON SINGLE INCH O SCOATLAN SHINE": On 'Esther' by David Kinloch. - Glasgow Review of Books Esther Inglis, a Franco-Scottish calligrapher, was once celebrated for her exquisite manuscripts before fading from literary history due to male-centric narratives. Recent academic interest, particula...

Here’s my review of David Kinloch’s new play, based on the life of Ester Inglis, the Franco-Scottish miniaturist. The play is entirely in Scots and weaves textuality, multilingualism, national and gender politics beautifully. @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social

glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/26/i...