Dr Peter Mackay

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2657

Email

pm83@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 004

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Biography

Dr Peter Mackay is a Senior Lecturer in Literature in the School of English. Originally from the Isle of Lewis, he is an expert in Scottish and Irish literature from 1800 onwards, and especially in Scottish Gaelic literature. He has written two monographs, This Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth (McGill-Queen's 2021) and Sorley MacLean (RIISS 2010). An anthology he edited with Iain S MacPherson, An Leabhar Liath: 500 years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse (Luath 2015) won the Donald Meek Prize for Gaelic literature and the Saltire Scottish Research Book of the Year; another anthology co-edited with Jo MacDonald, 100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn / 100 Favourite Gaelic Poems won the Duais Ruaraidh MhicThòmais in 2021. His poetry collections Gu Leòr / Galore (Acair 2015) and Nàdur de / Some Kind of (Acair 2020) were shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year; Nàdur de was also longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. An AHRC / BBC Next Generation Thinker, he is a frequent broadcaster on Radio 3 and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. In 2024 he was appointed Scottish Makar.

PhD supervision

• Callum Irvine
• Rachael Stark

Selected publications

• This strange loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth

  Mackay, P., 15 Apr 2021, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 340 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Sorley MacLean

  Mackay, P., 2010, AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. 181 p. (Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Nàdar de

  Mackay, P., 12 Mar 2020, Isle of Lewis: Acair Earranta. 160 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Gu leòr

  Mackay, P., 2015, Stornoway: Acair Earranta. 92 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• An Leabhar Liath. The Light-Blue Book: 500 years of Gaelic love and transgressive verse

  Mackay, P. (Editor) & Macpherson, I. (Editor), 1 Dec 2016, Edinburgh: Luath Press. 349 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

  Mackay, P. (Editor), Brearton, F. (Editor) & Longley, E. (Editor), 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 346 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Sùil air an t-Saoghal

  Mackay, P. (Editor) & O'Gallagher, N. (Editor), 2013, Isle of Skye: Clo Ostaig. 174 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The golden treasury of Scottish verse

  Jamie, K. (Editor), Paterson, D. (Editor) & Mackay, P. (Editor), 1 Sept 2021, Edinburgh: Canongate Books. 521 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• 100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn

  Mackay, P. & MacDonald, J., Oct 2020, Luath Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• 'The Tilt from One Parish to Another': The Tree House and Findings

  Mackay, P., 2015, Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Falconer, R. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 84-92 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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