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Alan Riach

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Alan Riach is a poet and Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. Born in Airdrie in 1957, he studied at Cambridge and Glasgow, then worked in New Zealand at the University of Waikato from 1986 to 2000.

He is the author of five books of poems: The Folding Map, An Open Return, First & Last Songs, Clearances and Homecoming, and of critical books, including Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry and Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography. He is President of the Scottish Association of Literary Studies and his radio series The Good of the Arts was first broadcast in New Zealand in 2001.

Alan Riach

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Alan Riach is a poet and Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. Born in Airdrie in 1957, he studied at Cambridge and Glasgow, then worked in New Zealand at the University of Waikato from 1986 to 2000.

He is the author of five books of poems: The Folding Map, An Open Return, First & Last Songs, Clearances and Homecoming, and of critical books, including Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry and Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography. He is President of the Scottish Association of Literary Studies and his radio series The Good of the Arts was first broadcast in New Zealand in 2001.

Books from Alan Riach

Beyond the Sun: Scotland's Favourite Paintings

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The Revolutionary Art of the Future: Rediscovered Poems

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Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond The Thirty Nine Steps

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The Hunterian Museum Poems: A History of the World in Objects and Poems

Arts and the Nation

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Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry

There is No Night

Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature

Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds

Modern Scottish Painting

The Referendum Rant: Poetry Competition to commemorate the Scottish Referendum on September 18th 2014, with Introduction by Professor Alan Riach

The Birlinn of Clanranald: The Original Gaelic Poem with a New English Version by Alan Riach

Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation

Scottish Eccentrics

Janet Paisley: Growing and Dying

Scotlands: Poets and the Nation

The Captain's Log: From Conway and Clan Line to Trinity House

Selected Poetry

Studies in Scottish Literature, Volume 40