{{Short description|Scottish poet and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} '''Alan Scott Riach''' (born 1 August 1957)<ref name="Smith">Smith, Anna. [https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/riach-alan-scott 'Riach, Alan (Scott)']. ''Encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved 16 April 2022.</ref> is a Scottish poet and academic.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Scotlands: Poets and the Nation|date=2004-10-01|publisher=Carcanet Press Ltd.|isbn=9781857547405|editor-last=Riach|editor-first=Alan|edition= 1st|location=Manchester|language=English|editor-last2=Gifford|editor-first2=Douglas}}</ref>

He was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Gravesend Grammar School for Boys, Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1979)<ref>''Guardian'', 21 June 1979.</ref> and the University of Glasgow (PhD 1985).<ref name="Smith"/> He taught at the University of Waikato in New Zealand from 1986 until 2001.<ref name="SPL">{{cite web|url=http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/alan-riach|title=Alan Riach: Scottish Poetry Library|accessdate=6 June 2021}}</ref> He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.<ref name="SPL"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/alanriach/|title=University of Glasgow :: School of Critical Studies :: Our staff :: Prof Alan Riach|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> Riach was President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 2006 to 2010 and is a regular contributor to ''The National''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenational.scot/author/profile/79234.Alan_Riach/|title=Profile: Alan Riach|website=www.thenational.scot|language=en|access-date=2018-11-21}}</ref>

==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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