Creative Conversations: Roderick Watson
Poet and academic Roderick Watson in Conversation with Alan Riach
Creative Conversations
Date: Monday 27 April 2026
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: 42 Bute Gardens 916
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Roderick Watson and Alan Riach
Roderick Watson was born in Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen University and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Victoria in Canada, then was Professor, now Professor Emeritus, at the University of Stirling. He has lectured and published widely on modern Scottish literature. He served as General Editor of the Canongate Classics reprint series since the start of the project in 1987, is currently the co-editor of The Journal of Stevenson Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Watson was one of the ‘Heretics’ performers in Edinburgh in the 1970s. His poetry publications include True History on the Walls (1977), Into the Blue Wavelengths (2004) and The Silver of Old Mirrors (2025).