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Alan Riach

Born

Airdrie, Scotland

Genre

Scottish Literature, Poetry

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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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 108 ratings · 15 reviews · 68 distinct works

	Scottish Literature: An Introduction 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The MacDiarmid Memorandum by Alan Riach, Alexander Moffat (Illustrator), Ruth Nicol (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arts of Independence by Alan Riach, Alexander Moffat it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homecoming: New Poems 2001 - 2009 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arts and the Nation by Alan Riach, Alexander Moffat, John Purser 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clearances liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hunterian Museum Poems: A History of the World in Objects and Poems by Alan Riach (Editor), Mungo Campbell (Introduction), Sheena Blackhall (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Folding Map liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First & Last Songs 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunter’s Voices: Poems from the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow by Alan Riach (Editor), Lesley Benzie (Contributor), Colin Bramwell (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For Scotland is made out of cities and the country and the sea, which means
It's so much more, as an imagined space, a geography of the mind,
Than its centres of population. Demographics are never enough
And the way in which this might best be imagined starts
In the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. And the poets and artists
Who followed from that. Not as disciples. As students. As witnesses
As thinking men and women, who understand the depths, complexities
Subtleties and strengths and the cosmic clock,
All the resources there, and all the risks required.

from 'Scotland's Voices”
― Alan Riach, Landmarks: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland

tags: hugh-macdiarmid, scotland

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