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The Carrying Stream — a podcast for Scottish words and ideas.🎙️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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This episode’s guests are publisher David Graham and writer Kirsty Gunn — 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.
October 4, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Just had a lovely discussion with David Graham & Kirsty Gunn – the founders of North House Press, a new publishing house based in the northern Highlands. We spoke about their love of Sutherland, about the Scottish publishing scenes, and about Neil Gunn, the great Highland writer from the 1920-40s🎙️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
September 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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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...
September 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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More from UHI Institute for Northern Studies Dr Paul Malgrati latest @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast
That’s the latest episode of The Carrying Stream out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍

This episode’s guest is Garry MacKenzie — the award-winning, ecologically attuned poet and scholar, Fifer, Glaswegian, and translator from Gaelic.

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September 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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That’s the latest episode of The Carrying Stream out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍

This episode’s guest is Garry MacKenzie — the award-winning, ecologically attuned poet and scholar, Fifer, Glaswegian, and translator from Gaelic.

Link: pod.link/1865430519
September 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
That’s the latest episode of The Carrying Stream out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍

This episode’s guest is Garry MacKenzie — the award-winning, ecologically attuned poet and scholar, Fifer, Glaswegian, and translator from Gaelic.

Link: pod.link/1865430519
September 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Braw News! The Carrying Stream has been nominated for The Scots Language Award’s Scots Media o the Year — to support the podcast, vote via the link in comments 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
September 5, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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The new episode of @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast, hosted by our EC member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, focuses on the poetry of Dundee and features Taylor Dyson and Erin Farley.
New Episode Out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏭🖋️

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August 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Dr Paul Malgrati, lecturer @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies hosts new @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast pod.link/1865430519
Just had a fantastic double interview with Dr Erin Farley, Dundee’s best literary historian, and Taylor Dyson, Dundee’s best young poet & performer in Scots. New episode on “Dundee poetry: Past and Present” coming out in the next few days.
July 28, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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New Episode Out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏭🖋️

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July 26, 2026 at 10:53 AM
New Episode Out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏭🖋️

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July 26, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Just had a fantastic double interview with Dr Erin Farley, Dundee’s best literary historian, and Taylor Dyson, Dundee’s best young poet & performer in Scots. New episode on “Dundee poetry: Past and Present” coming out in the next few days.
July 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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“Scots poets might have a few lessons to teach the French”

“Towards a Post-Colonial Alliance?”: @paulmalgrati.bsky.social offers perspectives on Franco-Scots #poetry #translation, exploring questions of voice, place, & power
#BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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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...
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July 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Featured article in the latest issue of the International Review of Scottish Studies @edinburghup.bsky.social!

FREE to access!
Great to see our article with Prof Gerard Carruthers published in the International Review of Scottish Studies.

It’s about the origins and inspiration of Robert Burns’s address ‘To a Haggis’ – 300 years of debates on the value and quality of Scottish food. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥘

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Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ | International Review of Scottish Studies
This article re-evaluates Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’—arguably, the most globally recited food poem in world literature—by situating it within a long-overlooked tradition of Scottish food patriotism....
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June 17, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Dr Clément Guézais discussing and analysing the medieval Franco-Scottish treaties and how these represented an ideal of friendship in diplomacy: a partnership of equals, separate entities but united by a common purpose. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷

For more insight on the Auld Alliance, listen to Episode 7 (link in bio).
June 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Dr Clément Guézais discussing and analysing the medieval Franco-Scottish treaties and how these represented an ideal of friendship in diplomacy: a partnership of equals, separate entities but united by a common purpose. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷

For more insight on the Auld Alliance, listen to Episode 7 (link in bio).
June 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Dr Paul Malgrati Lecturer at UHI Institute for Northern Studies new episode of @thecarryingstream.bsky.social features Dr Clément Guézais, a French historian, lecturer at the University of Arras, and scholar of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

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June 2, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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New episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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May 31, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Two Frenchmen talking in English about Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷
New episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

pod.link/1865430519
May 31, 2026 at 10:22 AM
New episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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May 31, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Prof Robert Crawford discussed his view of Scottish cultural identity and his lifelong attempt to disrupt the cliched, two-dimensional conception of Scotland (sometimes referred to as Caledonian Antisyygy). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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April 26, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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New episode out — with Robert Crawford, Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews and distinguished poet, whose work over the last 40 years did much to reshape in more multilingual and multicultural terms. Hope you enjoy it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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April 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
New episode out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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April 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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The new episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, hosted by IASSL member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social, interviews poet and scholar Robert Crawford. Available on all podcast platforms.
New episode out — with Robert Crawford, Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews and distinguished poet, whose work over the last 40 years did much to reshape in more multilingual and multicultural terms. Hope you enjoy it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

pod.link/1865430519
April 19, 2026 at 11:33 AM
New episode out — with Robert Crawford, Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews and distinguished poet, whose work over the last 40 years did much to reshape in more multilingual and multicultural terms. Hope you enjoy it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

pod.link/1865430519
April 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM