Paul Malgrati

Paul Malgrati is an award-winning poet and scholar from France, who first moved to Scotland in 2013. Between 2016 and 2019, Paul completed a Ph.D. thesis at the University of St Andrews, focussing on the political legacy of Robert Burns. This work led Paul to familiarise himself with the Scots language, which he went on to adopt as his chief poetic tongue. Paul’s first poems in Scots were published in various magazines, including Gutter, The Scores, Poetry Scotland, and The Poets’ Republic. In 2020, his manuscript was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize. The present volume, Poèmes Écossais, is an augmented version of this manuscript; it is Paul’s debut poetry collection.

Alongside poetry writing, Paul now works as a researcher at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies. His Ph.D. thesis, Robert Burns in Scottish Cultural Politics (1914-2014) is forthcoming as a monograph with Edinburgh University Press (2023). In 2021, Paul also published a French translation of Robert Crawford’s experimental, long poem, Curriculum Violette, for the Geneva-based Molecular Press.