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Paul Malgrati

@paulmalgrati.bsky.social

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Franco-Scot ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics

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@paulmalgrati.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:14 PM

Nice to end the week with my two latest (co-)publications making their way through my mailbox! ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿท

@glasgowrevbooks.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:25 AMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

In licht o the centenary o A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, screiver an academic @paulmalgrati.bsky.social reflecks on hoo MacDiarmidโ€™s heritage compares wi the likes o Burns, speecially the conditions o the hooses they hae left ahinโ€ฆ tinyurl.com/3b7k4kk9

@asls.org.ukOct 6, 2026, 12:49 PMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

The new episode of @thecarryingstream.bsky.social discusses the work of Neil M. Gunn (1891โ€“1973) with David Graham & Kirsty Gunn from @northhousepress.bsky.social. North House has republished Gunnโ€™s novels ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต (1926), ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต (1943) & ๐˜‰๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต (1952)
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@thecarryingstream.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 10:50 AMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

This episodeโ€™s guests are publisher David Graham and writer Kirsty Gunn โ€” the joint directors of North House Press, a new publishing house based in the Highlands, and who just republished three novels Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), the great Caithness novelist.

@iassl.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 1:18 PMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

Check out the latest from @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, hosted by our member, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social . It features Garry MacKenzie, the poet, translator from Gaelic, who also joined IASSL's recent webinar on "Environmental Scotland". The link to the webinar is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5xX...

@insuhi.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 11:40 AMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

More from UHI Institute for Northern Studies Dr Paul Malgrati latest @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast

@insuhi.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 10:40 AMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

Professor Mairรฉad Nic Craith UHI Institute for Northern Studies features in a BBC Future article.....Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names.

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

@thecarryingstream.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 11:03 AMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

Thatโ€™s the latest episode of The Carrying Stream out! ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ŸŒ

This episodeโ€™s guest is Garry MacKenzie โ€” the award-winning, ecologically attuned poet and scholar, Fifer, Glaswegian, and translator from Gaelic.

Link: pod.link/1865430519

@thecarryingstream.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 11:25 AMReposted by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social

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@paulmalgrati.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 11:23 AM

Great to see this fine gallimaufry celebrating the centenary of MacDiarmidโ€™s monumental Drunk Man. I wrote more extensively about this poem elsewhere, but hereโ€™s also a wee Franco-Scottish variation on the poem, which summarises in a few lines much of my thinking on the matter!

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