Alan Scott Riach (born 1 August 1957)Smith, Anna
'Riach, Alan (Scott)'
''Encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved 16 April 2022. is a Scottish poet and academic. He was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Gravesend Grammar School for Boys,

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(BA 1979) and the

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(PhD 1985). He taught at the

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from 1986 until 2001. He is currently the Professor of

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at the University of Glasgow. Riach was President of the

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from 2006 to 2010 and is a regular contributor to ''The National''.

Publications

*''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)

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