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Poets' A-Z » Alan Riach
Born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, educated at Cambridge and Glasgow,
Alan Riach went to the University of Waikato, New Zealand,
in 1986. He returned to Scotland in 2001 as Reader in the
Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow,
where he is now Professor and currently Head of Department.
He is the author of works of criticism on the poetry of Hugh
MacDiarmid, editor of MacDiarmid's collected works from Carcanet
Press, and has published four collections of poetry: This
Folding Map (AUP, 1990), An Open Return (Untold
Books, 1991), First & Last Songs (Chapman, 1995)
and Clearances (Scottish Cultural Press, 2001).
  
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