Professor Alan Riach

Professor of Scottish Literature (Scottish Literature)
Senior Adviser of Studies (Arts & Humanities Academic & Student Administration)

telephone: 01413306144
email: Alan.Riach@glasgow.ac.uk

R307 Level 3, Scottish Literature, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Research interests

Hugh MacDiarmid and 20th-century Scottish literature
Scottish literature in relation to music, painting, film & other arts
Literary and Visual imagination in the work of Alasdair Gray
Comparative studies of Scottish poetry and painting
Scottish literature in education, throughout the curriculum
Comparative Modernisms in Scotland, Ireland, America and New Zealand, especially in poetry
Imperialism, iconography, canonicity & marginality in Scottish literature
Contemporary Scottish literature
Course lecturer and Convenor of Level 1 and Honours courses
The Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid (General Editor)
The Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing (member)
Association for Scottish Literary Studies (past-President 2006-2010 and co-opted member of Council)

Biography

Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1957, Alan Riach holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, where he studied English as an undergraduate, and Glasgow, where he completed his doctorate in the Department of Scottish Literature. He worked in New Zealand from 1986 to December 2000, where he was Associate Professor of English and a Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, specialising in twentieth-century literature, teaching Scottish, Irish, American and post-colonial literatures, modern poetry and creative writing. His critical writing has appeared in numerous books and journals in Britain, New Zealand and internationally. He is the General Editor of the multi-volume Carcanet Press Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid, including the Selected Poems (New Directions, U.S.A., 1993; Penguin 20th Century Classics, 1994). He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Epic Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999) and the co-editor of The Radical Imagination: Lectures and Talks by Wilson Harris (1992), Scotlands: Poets and the Nation (2004), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (2009), Lion’s Milk: Turkish Poems by Scottish Poets (2012) and The Smeddum Test: 21^st-century Poems in Scots (2013). He wrote and presented the New Zealand radio series Scotland’s Renaissance (1993), the ‘Literature’ sections of the 10-part Fearful Symmetries: The 20th Century in Retrospect (1999-2000), and the 4-part The Good of the Arts (2001). His poetry has been published in numerous journals internationally and is collected in This Folding Map (Auckland University Press / Oxford University Press, 1990), An Open Return(Untold Books, New Zealand, 1991), First and Last Songs (Auckland University Press / Chapman, Edinburgh, 1995), Clearances (Hazard Press, NZ / Scottish Cultural Press, 2001) and Homecoming (Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2009). He is the author of Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and co-author of Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portaits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (2008), described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘a landmark’. He has contributed to numerous volumes including An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (Oxford University Press, 1997), Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (1997), 121 New Zealand Poets (2005), Spirits of the Age: Scottish Self-Portraits (2005), The Wallace Muse (2005) and The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). He is the Glasgow University Senate Representative on the Ayrshire Educational Trust and the Marr Educational Trust.

Research groups

Practice Research (Creative Writing)
Modernities
Scots & English in Scotland

Publications

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2023

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2023) The Ghost of John Nisbet: Hugh MacDiarmid's first published work. Studies in Scottish Literature, 49(1), pp. 11-27. 3. (doi: 10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.3)

2022

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2022) Scottish Literature: An Introduction. Luath Press Ltd: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910022955

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2022) La poesia escocesa moderna / Modern Scottish Poetry / Poemes / Poems. Associacio Cultural Amics de Joan Valls i Jorda: Valencia, Spain. ISBN 9788412339130

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2022) Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817; revised 1829–1830). In: Berndt, Katrin and Johns, Alessa (eds.) Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies (16). De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 519-538. ISBN 9783110649765 (doi: 10.1515/9783110650440)

2020

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2020) Scottish literature, nationalism and the First World War. In: Rennie, David A. (ed.) Scottish Literature and World War I. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474454599

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2020) Stuart Hood: literature, media and politics in modern Scotland. In: Hutchison, David and Johnson, David (eds.) Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle. ISBN 9781527554474

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2020) Sydney Goodsir Smith, artist and art critic. In: McCaffery, Richie (ed.) Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature (30). Brill Rodopi: Leiden and Boston, pp. 217-236. ISBN 978-90-04-42510-1

2019

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2019) Scotland: drawing a line. In: Archipelago 12. Clutag Press, pp. 95-104. ISBN 9781916446120

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2019) Location and destination in Alasdair mac Mhaigshstir Alasdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’. In: Szuba, Monika and Wolfreys, Julian (eds.) The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature. Series: Geocriticism and spatial literary studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 17-30. ISBN 9783030126445 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-12645-2_2)

2018

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2018) This savage wood. In: McNeillie, Andrew and McNeillie, James (eds.) Dead Ground: 2018-1918. Clutag: Thame, pp. 150-161. ISBN 9781999717865

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2018) Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism. In: Rosenthal, Caroline, Volkmann, Laurenz and Zagratzki, Uwe (eds.) Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs: Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 140-154. ISBN 9781527508682

2017

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Before MacDiarmid changed Scottish literature, there was the Kailyard. National, 2017, 29 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star. National, 2017, 22 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) The conflict between Scottish poets in the 1930s. National, 2017, 15 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Exploring MacDiarmid's Legacy. Part Two. National, 2017, 08 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) The Revolutionary: Reconsidering the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. National, 2017, 01 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2017) Alan Riach and Sandy Moffat: The art of the human condition. National, 2017, 25 Aug.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Celebrating the dignity of diversity and Scotland's links with South Asia. National, 2017, 18 Aug.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) 'To think we have lived to see cultural writing in a Scottish newspaper again' - new book of essays from The National. National, 2017, 11 Aug.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Scotland Emergent IV: From tales of Merlin and Arthur to the Agricola of Tacitus. National, 2017, 28 Jul.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Scotland Emergent Part III: The Dream of the Rood to the Norse Sagas. National, 2017, 21 Jul.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Scotland Emergent, the story of Scotland's literature, part II: Birth of the Democratic Intellect. National, 2017, 14 Jul.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Scotland Emergent: The story of Scotland's literature, part one: from early times to Columba. National, 2017, 07 Jul.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Two of the great Scottish novelists: Muriel Spark and Robin Jenkins. National, 2017, 29 June.

Moffat, Sandy and Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) The Buchenwald Memorandum. National, 2017, 23 June.

Moffat, Sandy and Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) The lost art of Robert Noble. National, 2017, 16 June.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Hugh MacDiarmid and the meaning of independence: a post-election special. National, 2017, 09 June.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) David Lyndsay - the man who gave ordinary Scots a voice. National, 2017, 19 May.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Passion and Ordered Energy: Alan Riach evaluates Gavin Douglas's effect on the Scots language. National, 2017, 05 May.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Robin Jenkins: the short stories. In: Gifford, Thomas and Bicket, Juliet (eds.) The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace. Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature (26). Brill | Rodopi: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 130-142. ISBN 9789004337046 (doi: 10.1163/9789004342491_009)

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Enlightened Scotland: How the Age of Reason made an impact on the country's thinkers. National, 2017, 21 Apr.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Odd fellows: Alan Riach examines the colourful work of William Lithgow and Thomas Urquhart. National, 2017, 07 Apr.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Alan Riach: On film & film poetry. National, 2017, 31 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Earthly and unearthly powers collide: Ballads of poetry and song. National, 2017, 24 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Alan Riach examines neglected poets in a time of political transition. National, 2017, 17 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Mysterious voices and lasting truths: Alan Riach takes a literary tour of the Borders. National, 2017, 10 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Sport and God are Scotland's obsessions - why doesn't our literature reflect this? National, 2017, 03 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Scottish Gothic poetry. In: Davison, Carol Margaret and Germanà, Monica (eds.) Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Series: Edinburgh companions to the gothic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781474408196

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) The Winter Book. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910745939

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2017) In praise of John Berger Part Two: Scratching beneath the surface of art’s canvas. National, 2017, 24 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2017) John Berger: A dissenter who inspired fresh ideas. National, 2017, 16 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2017) At one with being at odds with nature: Alan Riach and Alexander Moffat on the work of Joan Eardley: Part two. National, 2017, 10 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2017) Joan Eardley and the art of contrast. National, 2017, 03 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Alan Warner: timeless realities. In: Acheson, James (ed.) The Contemporary British Novel since 2000. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 88-96. ISBN 9781474403733

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Sir Walter Scott – Bringing out the best in us... National, 2017, 27 Jan.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Masterly studies of divided loyalties: Approaching Sir Walter Scott - Part Two. National, 2017, 20 Jan.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Approaching Walter Scott Part 1: A meeting of minds between Robert Burns and a literary great in the making. National, 2017, 13 Jan.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2017) Home and away: Alan Riach continues his examination of how travel writing influenced Scottish literature. National, 2017, 06 Jan.

Riach, Alan (Ed.) (2017) The Hunterian Museum Poems: A History of the World in Objects and Poems. Freight: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908754783

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482, Moffat, Alexander, Purser, John and McDiarmid, Hugh (2017) Arts and the Nation: a Critical Re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781912147106

2016

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Transports of delight: Alan Riach takes a journey through the literary tradition of travel writing as penned by visitors to Scotland. National, 2016, 30 Dec.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) The Bruce, The Wallace and the declaration of Arbroath. National, 2016, 23 Dec.

Learmonth, Andrew and Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) This ‘Brutish’ view of the pro-indy side in verse could not be much worse. National, 2016, 22 Dec.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Looking at Robert Henryson, one of the world's greatest poets. National, 2016, 16 Dec.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) 'Things are never fixed, finally formed and closed': Alan Riach on Scotland's literature media. National, 2016, 09 Dec.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Screening literature: Alan Riach explores the links between Scottish writing, media and politics. National, 2016, 02 Dec.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) A flyting philosophy distilled from Scottish literature. National, 2016, 25 Nov.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Visions beyond violence: Alan Riach examines modern Scottish literature’s response to war. National, 2016, 21 Oct.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Mapping the landscape of our literature. National, 2016, 14 Oct.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Scotland has always been a mongrel nation of healthy curiosities and zombie priorities. National, 2016, 07 Oct.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Reading between the laughter lines: Alan Riach explores the complex world of literary humour. National, 2016, 30 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Putting our identity into our own words - the connection between languages, literature and common humanity. National, 2016, 23 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) Notes towards a manifesto for uncertain times – the future for the arts and education in Scotland. National, 2016, 16 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) Friends in High Places: The art of William Gillies and John Maxwell. National, 2016, 09 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) Personal, powerful, political ... the overlooked work of artist Alice Neel. National, 2016, 02 Sept.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) 'Nothing I can describe and nothing you’ll read or see on screen gives the sense of what India truly is' - Alan Riach embarks on an excursion to a remarkable land. National, 2016, 26 Aug.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Igniting the creative spirit ... a television series that left its mark. National, 2016, 05 Aug.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Scotland: The Promised Land, Part I: Unanswered questions, unfulfilled potential ... National, 2016, 29 July.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) New eyes on old questions. National, 2016, 22 July.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Gerard Manley Hopkins - a poet who opened up many poetic vistas for Scotland. National, 2016, 15 July.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) The legacy of Gerard Manley Hopkins lives on in his poetry. National, 2016, 08 July.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) How the Celts opened the gateway to a wider world: Europe, Scotland and The Celts: Part II. National, 2016, 01 July.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) There were many Celtic connections in the fight against reactionary imperialism. National, 2016, 24 June.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Alan Riach: The Birlinn of Clanranald. [Audio]

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) How music is attuned with our very identity. National, 2016, 27 May.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Hugh MacDiarmid's rallying cry on education. National, 2016, 20 May.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Hugh MacDiarmid's satirical to and fro with Glasgow University undergraduates. National, 2016, 13 May.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Why do Unionists want art to be universal? National, 2016, 29 Apr.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) How the state has a role in linking people to the arts. National, 2016, 22 Apr.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) John Bellany, Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. National, 2016, 25 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and Moffat, Alexander (2016) JD Fergusson: A dramatic fusion of art, nationality and modernism. National, 2016, 18 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) It is hard to imagine a better choice of Makar. National, 2016, 16 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Modernist Shetland: MacDiarmid’s quest to unify Scotland's diversity. National, 2016, 11 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Modernist St Andrews - What really happened in the 1930s? National, 2016, 04 March.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Modernist Montrose: Scotland’s 1920s capital of culture! National, 2016, 26 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Not Burns – Elizabeth Melville! National, 2016, 19 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Not Burns – Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair! National, 2016, 12 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Not Burns – Duncan Ban MacIntyre and his Gaelic manifesto for land reform. National, 2016, 05 Feb.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Culture: Not just Burns – what about the poet Robert Fergusson? National, 2016, 29 Jan.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Not Burns – Dunbar! National, 2016, 22 Jan.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Liberty and Scottish literature. In: Brown, Ian, Clark, David and Jarazo-Alvarez, Ruben (eds.) Taking Liberties: Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (21). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781908980212

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Physician of Society: The Poet in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Williams, Mark (ed.) A History of New Zealand Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 208-223. ISBN 9781107085350

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) Scottish poetry, 1945-2010. In: Larrisy, Edward (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 148-162. ISBN 9781107462847 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781316111314.011)

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2016) To rise for a life worth having. In: Maley, Willy and Lusk, Kirsty (eds.) Scotland and the Easter Rising. Luath Press: Edinburgh, pp. 160-167. ISBN 9781010745366

2015

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2015) Hugh MacDiarmid and the borders of Scotland. Eildon Tree: New Writing from the Scottish Borders and Beyond(26), pp. 44-47.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2015) Mr and Mrs Scotland are taking a vacation in the autonomous region. In: Falconer, Rachel (ed.) Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 21-31. ISBN 9780748696000

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 ed. (2015) The Hunterian Poems: An Anthology of Poems to Paintings from the collection of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow. Freight Books: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908754783

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 ed. (2015) The International Companion to Edwin Morgan. Series: International companions to Scottish literature. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980144

Moffat, Alexander and Riach, Alan(Eds.) (2015) JD Fergusson: Modern Scottish Painting. [Scholarly Editions]

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2015) The Birlinn of Clanranald. Kettillonia. ISBN 9781902944326

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2015) Introduction: presence, process, prize. In: Riach, Alan (ed.) International Companion to Edwin Morgan. Scottish Literature International, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9781908980144

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2015) The politics of nature in 'Praise of Ben Dorain'. In: Laplace, Philippe (ed.) Environmental and Ecological Readings: Nature, Human and Posthuman Dimensions in Scottish literature and Arts (XVIII-XXI c.). Series: Collection annales litteraires de l'Universitaire de Franche-Comte (947). Presses universitaires de Franche-Comte: Besancon, pp. 39-59. ISBN 9782848675305

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 and McLeod, Wilson (2015) Protest and politics. In: Sassi, Carla (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Poetry. Series: The international companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 156-168. ISBN 9781908980182

2014

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2014) After MacDiarmid: creative writers, the canon, and the academy. Studies in Scottish Literature, 40(1), pp. 15-21.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2014) The Borders, Scottish Literature and the Unanswered Questions. Eildon Tree: New Writing from the Scottish Borders and Beyond(24), pp. 17-19.

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2014) Scottish literature and Anglo-American modernity: what makes it new? In: Irimia, Mihaela and Paris, Andreea (eds.) Literature and the Long Modernity. Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemein und Vergleichden Literaturwissenschaft (176). Rodopi: Amsterdam-New York, pp. 293-307. ISBN 9789042038523

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2014) Wild Blue: Selected Poems / Dziki błękit: wierse wybrane. Wydawnictwo Maski: Gdansk, Poland. ISBN 9788364088025

Moffat, Alexander and Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2014) Arts of Independence: The Cultural Argument and Why It Matters Most. Series: Viewpoints. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781908373755 (doi: 2014)

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2014) The literary vision or how to make things seen. In: Manfredi, Camille (ed.) Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 151-168. ISBN 9781137401779

2012

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2012) What good is a canon? The case of Scottish literature. Anglistik, 23(2), pp. 129-138.

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2012) W.S. Graham and his Scottish contemporaries. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 4(1), pp. 65-75.

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2012) Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid and Morgan's "A Home in Space". In: McCracken-Flesher, C. (ed.) Scotland as Science Fiction. Series: Apercus. Bucknell University Press, pp. 133-151. ISBN 9781611484267

Brown, I. and Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (Eds.) (2012) Lion's Milk / Aslan Sutu: Turkish Poems by Scottish Poets [translated into Turkish by Gulru White]. Kennedy & Boyd: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9781849211185

Duncan, L. and Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (Eds.) (2012) The Smeddum Test: 21st-Century Poems in Scots: The McCash Anthology 2003–2012. Kennedy & Boyd: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9781849211246

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2012) James K. Baxter and Robert Burns: the form of address. Journal of New Zealand Literature(30), pp. 52-73.

2011

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2011) C.M. Grieve/Hugh MacDiarmid, editor and essayist. In: Lyall, S. and McCulloch, M. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 36-47. ISBN 9780748641895

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2011) Hugh MacDiarmid: put it to the touch - an introduction to Dear Grieve. In: Manson, J. (ed.) Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve). Kennedy & Boyd: Glasgow, xiii-xxiii. ISBN 9781849210782

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2011) Returning to Assynt. In: Archipelago. Clutag Press, pp. 58-71.

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2011) W.B. Yeats and Hugh MacDiarmid: kingly cousins. In: Dymock, E. and McCulloch, M. (eds.) Scottish and International Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations. Series: ASLS Occasional Papers (15). Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow, pp. 87-100. ISBN 9781906841072

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2011) Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: the violence and virtues of nations. In: Gardiner, M., Macdonald, G. and O'Gallagher, N. (eds.) Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 111-123. ISBN 9780748637744

2010

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2010) Tartanry and its discontents: the idea of popular Scottishness. In: Brown, I. (ed.) From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 115-128. ISBN 9780748638772

2009

Brown, I. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (2009) Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748636938

Neely, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8291-0638 and Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2009) Demons in the machine: experimental film, poetry and modernism in twentieth-century Scotland. In: Murray, Jonathan, Farley, Fidelma and Stoneman, Rod (eds.) Scottish Cinema Now. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781443803311

Riach, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2009) The poetics of devolution. In: McGuire, M. and Nicholson, C. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748636259

Riach, A. (2009) Homecoming: New Poems 2001-2009. Luath Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781906817091

Riach, A. (2009) John Buchan: politics, language and suspense. In: Macdonald, K. (ed.) Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps. Pickering & Chatto, pp. 171-181. ISBN 9781851969982

2008

Leask, N.J. and Riach, A. (2008) Stepping Westward: The Inaugural Lectures of Professor Nigel Leask, Regius Chair of English Language and Literature and Professor Alan Riach, Chair of Scottish Literature, the University of Glasgow: Given on 2nd December 2006. Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780948877841

Moffat, A. and Riach, A. (2008) Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland. Luath Press. ISBN 9781906307639

Riach, A. (2008) Clearances. In: Livingstone, E. (ed.) Skein of Geese: Poems from the 100 Poets Gathering at StAnza 2007. Shed Press: Balmullo, UK.

Riach, A. (2008) Co-ordinate points: a portrait of David Daiches. In: Baker, W. and Lister, M. (eds.) David Daiches: a Celebration of His Life and Work. Sussex Academic Press, pp. 137-139. ISBN 9781845191597

Riach, A. (2008) The guy rope. In: Calder, A., Berengarten, R. and Calder, G. (eds.) For Angus: Poems, Prose, Sketches and Music, May-July 2008. Los Poetry Press: Cambridge, UK.

Riach, A. (2008) Once upon a time in the West of Scotland. In: Stepping Westward: The Inaugural Lectures of Professor Nigel Leask, Regius Chair of English Language and Literature and Professor Alan Riach, Chair of Scottish Literature, the University of Glasgow: Given on 2nd December 2006. Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK, pp. 49-86. ISBN 9780948877841

Riach, A. (2008) Other than realism: magic and violence in modern Scottish fiction and the recent work of Wilson Harris. International Journal of Scottish Literature, 4,

Riach, A. (2008) The Scars of Billy Bones: A Toast to the Memory of Roberts Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson Club: Edinburgh, UK.

2007

Riach, A. (2007) An introduction to the literature of Scotland and Glasgow. Anglo Files: Journal of English Teaching, 146, pp. 17-21.

Riach, A. (2007) Hugh MacDiarmid. In: Brown, I., Clancy, T., Manning, S. and Pittock, M. (eds.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 75-83. ISBN 9780748624829

Riach, A. (2007) Literature of industrialisation. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 236-243. ISBN 9780748624812

2005

Riach, A. (2005) Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781403945914

Riach, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-3482 (2005) Norman MacCaig. In: Fazzini, M. (ed.) Alba Literaria: a history of Scottish literature. Amos Edizioni: Venezia Mestre. ISBN 9788887670127

2004

Gifford, D.M. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (2004) Scotlands: poets and the nation. Carcanet: Manchester. ISBN 9781857547405

Riach, A. (2004) The Whistler's story: tragedy and the enlightenment imagination in Scott's The Heart of Midlothian. Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXIII, pp. 308-319.

2003

Riach, A. (2003) The Brownsbank legacy. In: Robertson, J. (ed.) Stepping into the Avalanche: in Memory of Hugh MacDiarmid : the Tenth Anniversary Anthology of the Brownsbank Creative Writing Fellowship. Brownsbank Press. ISBN 9780952014522

Riach, A. (2003) Edwin Morgan (b. 1920). In: Poplawski, P. (ed.) Encylopedia of Literary Modernism. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, pp. 266-267. ISBN 0313310173

Riach, A. (2003) Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (James Leslie Mitchell) (1901-1935). In: Poplawski, P. (ed.) Enclopedia of Literary Modernism. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, pp. 160-162. ISBN 0313310173

Riach, A. (2003) Heather and fern: The Burns effect in New Zealand verse. In: Brooking, T. and Coleman, J. (eds.) The Heather and the Fern: Scottish Migration and New Zealand Settlement. University of Otago Press, pp. 153-171. ISBN 1877276332

Riach, A. (2003) Modernism and Edwin Morgan. In: Poplawski, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. Greenwood Press: Westport, USA. ISBN 9780313310171

Riach, A. (2003) Modernism and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. In: Poplawski, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. Greenwood Press: Westport, USA. ISBN 9780313310171

Riach, A. (2003) Modernism and Scotland, 1890-1940. In: Poplawski, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. Greenwood Press: Westport, USA. ISBN 9780313310171

Riach, A. (2003) Modernism and Scottish poetry, 1922-1999. In: Poplawski, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. Greenwood Press: Westport, USA. ISBN 9780313310171

2002

Riach, A. (2002) Now. In: O'Rourke, D. (ed.) Dream State: The New Scottish Poets. Polygon: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748662609

2001

Riach, A. (2001) At Loudoun hill. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

Riach, A. (2001) The blues. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

Riach, A. (2001) Clearances. Scottish Cultural Press: Dalkeith. ISBN 1877270075

Riach, A. (2001) Clearances. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

Riach, A. (2001) A conversation with David Daiches. Quadrant, 45(1-2), pp. 72-77.

Riach, A. (2001) Kilmartin Glen. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

Riach, A. (2001) Necessity of listening. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

Riach, A. (2001) A short introduction to my uncle Glen. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

Riach, A. (2001) They dream only of Scotland. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875

2000

Riach, A. (2000) Thinking of Norman MacCaig. Quadrant, 44(10), p. 56.

1999

Watson, R. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1999) Annals of the Five Senses and Other Stories, Sketches and Plays. Carcanet Press. ISBN 185754272X

Riach, A. (1999) The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. Series: Scotnotes (15). Association for Scottish Literary Studies. ISBN 9780948877407

1998

Calder, A., Murray, G. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1998) The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose Vol. 3. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857543780

1997

Calder, A., Murray, G. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1997) The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose Vol. 2. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857542714

Riach, A. (1997) MacDiarmid's Burns. In: Crawford, R. (ed.) Robert Burns and Cultural Authority. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 198-215. ISBN 0748607404

1996

Calder, A., Murray, G. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1996) The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollectd Prose Vol. 1. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857542349

1991

Riach, A. (1991) Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748602575

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