Alan Riach
Alan Scott Riach is a Scottish poet and academic.
He was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Gravesend Grammar School for Boys, Churchill College, Cambridge and the University of Glasgow. He taught at the University of Waikato in New Zealand from 1986 until 2001. He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Riach was President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 2006 to 2010 and is a regular contributor to The National.
Publications
- This Folding Map
- An Open Return
- Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry
- First & Last Songs
- The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid:: Scotnotes Study Guide
- Clearances
- Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation
- The Scars of Billy Bones: A Toast to the Memory of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Homecoming: new poems 2001-2009
- Arts of Independence: the cultural argument and why it matters most
- The Birlinn of Clanranald
- The International Companion to Edwin Morgan
- The Hunterian Poems: An Anthology of Poems to Paintings from the collection of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow
- Arts and the Nation: a Critical Re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture
- ''The Winter Book''