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Peter Mackay

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Peter Mackay / Pàdraig MacAoidh is a poet, lecturer and broadcaster from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He has two collections of poems, Nàdar De (Some Kind of, 2020) and Gu Leòr (Galore, 2015), published by Acair, and a pamphlet, From Another Island, with Clutag Press (2010). He writes in Gàidhlig and English, and his work has been translated into Czech, French, German, Irish, Occitan, Macedonian, Scots, Slovakian and Welsh. His academic work includes This Strange Loneliness: Heaney’s Wordsworth (2021) and Sorley MacLean (2011); he is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of St Andrews, and has been an AHRC / Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.

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