I am a researcher, translator, and writer, working between Czech, Scottish Gaelic, and English.
’S e neach-rannsachaidh, eadar-theangadair, agus sgrìobhadair a th’ annam, agus tha mi air a bhith ag obair eadar Seacais, Gàidhlig na h-Alba, is Beurla.
Latest | Naidheachdan
- ERC Starting Grant ‘NUDGERS: New Users of Minoritised Languages as Writers and Cultural Agents‘ funded by the European Research Council, to start in January 2027
- Interview for Charles University magazine Forum: ‘I Enjoy Looking for Unexpected Links between Scotland and the Czech Lands’
- “Am Misgear agus an Cluaran: MacDiarmid’s Poem in the Gaelic World,” Ayont the Thistle: A gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, ed. Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach, and James Robertson (Tippermuir Books, 2026)
- “MacDiarmid and the Gaelic World: C. M. Grieve, Ruaraidh Erskine and Derick Thomson,” Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions and Revisions, ed. Camille Manfredi, Philippe Laplace, and Fiona Paterson (De Gruyter Brill, 2026)
- The Carrying Stream: A Podcast for Scottish Words and Ideas, Petra Johana Poncarová in conversation with Paul Malgrati (March 2026), featuring a new poem ‘Na Crainn’
- Profile in the Scottish Poetry Library database of Scottish poets, with the poem ‘Àite nan Iomadh Loch’ in Gaelic and English
Contact | Fios: poncarova (at) gmail.com
Petra Johana Poncarová 