Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Paul Malgrati is a Franco-Scottish scholar and poet, specialist in Scottish literature. He is currently turning his award-winning thesis, Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics (1914-2014) into a monograph, which will be published by Edinburgh University Press in March 2023. This will be his second book, following the publication of his debut poetry collection, Poèmes Écossais, by Blue Diode Press in July 2022.
A Scottish poet maun assume The burden o’ his people’s doom An dee to brak’ their livin’ tomb. Mony ha’e tried, but a’ ha’e failed, Their sacrifice has nicht availed, Upon the thistle they’re impaled. Such is the famous cul-de-sac where Hugh MacDiarmid parked his superlative, 2650-line poem, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. […]
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 regarding the normative tendency of Franco-Scots interactions and the way to escape it. […]