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Alan Riach

January 01, 1970

Alan Scott Riach (born 1 August 1957)[1] is a Scottish poet and academic.[2]

He was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Gravesend Grammar School for Boys, Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1979)[3] and the University of Glasgow (PhD 1985).[1] He taught at the University of Waikato in New Zealand from 1986 until 2001.[4] He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.[4][5] Riach was President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 2006 to 2010 and is a regular contributor to The National.[6]

Publications edit

  • This Folding Map (Auckland University Press, 1990)
  • An Open Return (Untold Books, 1991)
  • Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 1991)
  • First & Last Songs (Chapman, 1995)
  • The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid:: Scotnotes Study Guide (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999)
  • Clearances (Scottish Cultural Press, 2001)
  • Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
  • The Scars of Billy Bones: A Toast to the Memory of Robert Louis Stevenson (Robert Louis Stevenson Club, 2008)
  • Homecoming: new poems 2001-2009 (Luath, 2009)
  • Arts of Independence: the cultural argument and why it matters most (with Alexander Moffat) (Luath, 2014)
  • The Birlinn of Clanranald (Kettillonia, 2015)
  • The International Companion to Edwin Morgan (editor) (Scottish Literature International, 2015)
  • The Hunterian Poems: An Anthology of Poems to Paintings from the collection of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow (Freight Books, 2015)
  • Arts and the Nation: a Critical Re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture (with Alexander Moffat and John Purser) (Luath Press, 2017)
  • The Winter Book (Luath Press, 2017)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Smith, Anna. 'Riach, Alan (Scott)'. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  2. ^ Riach, Alan; Gifford, Douglas, eds. (1 October 2004). Scotlands: Poets and the Nation (1st ed.). Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN 9781857547405.
  3. ^ Guardian, 21 June 1979.
  4. ^ a b "Alan Riach: Scottish Poetry Library". Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  5. ^ "University of Glasgow :: School of Critical Studies :: Our staff :: Prof Alan Riach". Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Profile: Alan Riach". www.thenational.scot. Retrieved 21 November 2018.


 

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