Professor Alan Riach
- Professor of Scottish Literature (Scottish Literature)
telephone:
01413306144
email:
Alan.Riach@glasgow.ac.uk
R307 Level 3, Scottish Literature, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
Research interests
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: 21st-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.
Publications
2023
Riach, A. (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, A. (2022) Scottish Literature: An Introduction. Luath Press Ltd: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910022955
Riach, A. (2022) La poesia escocesa moderna / Modern Scottish Poetry / Poemes / Poems. Associacio Cultural Amics de Joan Valls i Jorda: Valencia, Spain. ISBN 9788412339130
Riach, A. (2022) Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817; revised 1829–1830). In: Berndt, K. and Johns, A. (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, A. (2020) Scottish literature, nationalism and the First World War. In: Rennie, D. A. (ed.) Scottish Literature and World War I. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474454599
Riach, A. (2020) Stuart Hood: literature, media and politics in modern Scotland. In: Hutchison, D. and Johnson, D. (eds.) Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle. ISBN 9781527554474
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2020) Sydney Goodsir Smith, artist and art critic. In: McCaffery, R. (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, A. (2019) Scotland: drawing a line. In: Archipelago 12. Clutag Press, pp. 95-104. ISBN 9781916446120
Riach, A. (2019) Location and destination in Alasdair mac Mhaigshstir Alasdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’. In: Szuba, M. and Wolfreys, J. (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, A. (2018) This savage wood. In: McNeillie, A. and McNeillie, J. (eds.) Dead Ground: 2018-1918. Clutag: Thame, pp. 150-161. ISBN 9781999717865
Riach, A. (2018) Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism. In: Rosenthal, C., Volkmann, L. and Zagratzki, U. (eds.) Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs: Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 140-154. ISBN 9781527508682
2017
Riach, A. (2017) Before MacDiarmid changed Scottish literature, there was the Kailyard. National, 2017, 29 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star. National, 2017, 22 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) The conflict between Scottish poets in the 1930s. National, 2017, 15 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) Exploring MacDiarmid's Legacy. Part Two. National, 2017, 08 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) The Revolutionary: Reconsidering the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. National, 2017, 01 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) Alan Riach and Sandy Moffat: The art of the human condition. National, 2017, 25 Aug.
Riach, A. (2017) Celebrating the dignity of diversity and Scotland's links with South Asia. National, 2017, 18 Aug.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent IV: From tales of Merlin and Arthur to the Agricola of Tacitus. National, 2017, 28 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent Part III: The Dream of the Rood to the Norse Sagas. National, 2017, 21 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent, the story of Scotland's literature, part II: Birth of the Democratic Intellect. National, 2017, 14 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent: The story of Scotland's literature, part one: from early times to Columba. National, 2017, 07 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Two of the great Scottish novelists: Muriel Spark and Robin Jenkins. National, 2017, 29 June.
Moffat, S. and Riach, A. (2017) The Buchenwald Memorandum. National, 2017, 23 June.
Moffat, S. and Riach, A. (2017) The lost art of Robert Noble. National, 2017, 16 June.
Riach, A. (2017) Hugh MacDiarmid and the meaning of independence: a post-election special. National, 2017, 09 June.
Riach, A. (2017) David Lyndsay - the man who gave ordinary Scots a voice. National, 2017, 19 May.
Riach, A. (2017) Passion and Ordered Energy: Alan Riach evaluates Gavin Douglas's effect on the Scots language. National, 2017, 05 May.
Riach, A. (2017) Robin Jenkins: the short stories. In: Gifford, T. and Bicket, J. (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, A. (2017) Enlightened Scotland: How the Age of Reason made an impact on the country's thinkers. National, 2017, 21 Apr.
Riach, A. (2017) Odd fellows: Alan Riach examines the colourful work of William Lithgow and Thomas Urquhart. National, 2017, 07 Apr.
Riach, A. (2017) Alan Riach: On film & film poetry. National, 2017, 31 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Earthly and unearthly powers collide: Ballads of poetry and song. National, 2017, 24 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Alan Riach examines neglected poets in a time of political transition. National, 2017, 17 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Mysterious voices and lasting truths: Alan Riach takes a literary tour of the Borders. National, 2017, 10 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Sport and God are Scotland's obsessions - why doesn't our literature reflect this? National, 2017, 03 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Scottish Gothic poetry. In: Davison, C. M. and Germanà, M. (eds.) Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Series: Edinburgh companions to the gothic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781474408196
Riach, A. (2017) The Winter Book. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910745939
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) In praise of John Berger Part Two: Scratching beneath the surface of art’s canvas. National, 2017, 24 Feb.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) John Berger: A dissenter who inspired fresh ideas. National, 2017, 16 Feb.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (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, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) Joan Eardley and the art of contrast. National, 2017, 03 Feb.
Riach, A. (2017) Alan Warner: timeless realities. In: Acheson, J. (ed.) The Contemporary British Novel since 2000. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 88-96. ISBN 9781474403733
Riach, A. (2017) Sir Walter Scott – Bringing out the best in us... National, 2017, 27 Jan.
Riach, A. (2017) Masterly studies of divided loyalties: Approaching Sir Walter Scott - Part Two. National, 2017, 20 Jan.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2017) Home and away: Alan Riach continues his examination of how travel writing influenced Scottish literature. National, 2017, 06 Jan.
Riach, A. (Ed.) (2017) The Hunterian Museum Poems: A History of the World in Objects and Poems. Freight: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908754783
Riach, A. , Moffat, A., Purser, J. and McDiarmid, H. (2017) Arts and the Nation: a Critical Re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781912147106
2016
Riach, A. (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, A. (2016) The Bruce, The Wallace and the declaration of Arbroath. National, 2016, 23 Dec.
Learmonth, A. and Riach, A. (2016) This ‘Brutish’ view of the pro-indy side in verse could not be much worse. National, 2016, 22 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) Looking at Robert Henryson, one of the world's greatest poets. National, 2016, 16 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) 'Things are never fixed, finally formed and closed': Alan Riach on Scotland's literature media. National, 2016, 09 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) Screening literature: Alan Riach explores the links between Scottish writing, media and politics. National, 2016, 02 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) A flyting philosophy distilled from Scottish literature. National, 2016, 25 Nov.
Riach, A. (2016) Visions beyond violence: Alan Riach examines modern Scottish literature’s response to war. National, 2016, 21 Oct.
Riach, A. (2016) Mapping the landscape of our literature. National, 2016, 14 Oct.
Riach, A. (2016) Scotland has always been a mongrel nation of healthy curiosities and zombie priorities. National, 2016, 07 Oct.
Riach, A. (2016) Reading between the laughter lines: Alan Riach explores the complex world of literary humour. National, 2016, 30 Sept.
Riach, A. (2016) Putting our identity into our own words - the connection between languages, literature and common humanity. National, 2016, 23 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) Notes towards a manifesto for uncertain times – the future for the arts and education in Scotland. National, 2016, 16 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) Friends in High Places: The art of William Gillies and John Maxwell. National, 2016, 09 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) Personal, powerful, political ... the overlooked work of artist Alice Neel. National, 2016, 02 Sept.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2016) Igniting the creative spirit ... a television series that left its mark. National, 2016, 05 Aug.
Riach, A. (2016) Scotland: The Promised Land, Part I: Unanswered questions, unfulfilled potential ... National, 2016, 29 July.
Riach, A. (2016) New eyes on old questions. National, 2016, 22 July.
Riach, A. (2016) Gerard Manley Hopkins - a poet who opened up many poetic vistas for Scotland. National, 2016, 15 July.
Riach, A. (2016) The legacy of Gerard Manley Hopkins lives on in his poetry. National, 2016, 08 July.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) How the Celts opened the gateway to a wider world: Europe, Scotland and The Celts: Part II. National, 2016, 01 July.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) There were many Celtic connections in the fight against reactionary imperialism. National, 2016, 24 June.
Riach, A. (2016) Alan Riach: The Birlinn of Clanranald. [Audio]
Riach, A. (2016) How music is attuned with our very identity. National, 2016, 27 May.
Riach, A. (2016) Hugh MacDiarmid's rallying cry on education. National, 2016, 20 May.
Riach, A. (2016) Hugh MacDiarmid's satirical to and fro with Glasgow University undergraduates. National, 2016, 13 May.
Riach, A. (2016) Why do Unionists want art to be universal? National, 2016, 29 Apr.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) How the state has a role in linking people to the arts. National, 2016, 22 Apr.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) John Bellany, Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. National, 2016, 25 March.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) JD Fergusson: A dramatic fusion of art, nationality and modernism. National, 2016, 18 March.
Riach, A. (2016) It is hard to imagine a better choice of Makar. National, 2016, 16 March.
Riach, A. (2016) Modernist Shetland: MacDiarmid’s quest to unify Scotland's diversity. National, 2016, 11 March.
Riach, A. (2016) Modernist St Andrews - What really happened in the 1930s? National, 2016, 04 March.
Riach, A. (2016) Modernist Montrose: Scotland’s 1920s capital of culture! National, 2016, 26 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Elizabeth Melville! National, 2016, 19 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair! National, 2016, 12 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Duncan Ban MacIntyre and his Gaelic manifesto for land reform. National, 2016, 05 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Culture: Not just Burns – what about the poet Robert Fergusson? National, 2016, 29 Jan.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Dunbar! National, 2016, 22 Jan.
Riach, A. (2016) Liberty and Scottish literature. In: Brown, I., Clark, D. and Jarazo-Alvarez, R. (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, A. (2016) Physician of Society: The Poet in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Williams, M. (ed.) A History of New Zealand Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 208-223. ISBN 9781107085350
Riach, A. (2016) Scottish poetry, 1945-2010. In: Larrisy, E. (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, A. (2016) To rise for a life worth having. In: Maley, W. and Lusk, K. (eds.) Scotland and the Easter Rising. Luath Press: Edinburgh, pp. 160-167. ISBN 9781010745366
2015
Riach, A. (2015) Hugh MacDiarmid and the borders of Scotland. Eildon Tree: New Writing from the Scottish Borders and Beyond(26), pp. 44-47.
Riach, A. (2015) Mr and Mrs Scotland are taking a vacation in the autonomous region. In: Falconer, R. (ed.) Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 21-31. ISBN 9780748696000
Riach, A. 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, A. ed. (2015) The International Companion to Edwin Morgan. Series: International companions to Scottish literature. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980144
Moffat, A. and Riach, A.(Eds.) (2015) JD Fergusson: Modern Scottish Painting. [Scholarly Editions]
Riach, A. (2015) The Birlinn of Clanranald. Kettillonia. ISBN 9781902944326
Riach, A. (2015) Introduction: presence, process, prize. In: Riach, A. (ed.) International Companion to Edwin Morgan. Scottish Literature International, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9781908980144
Riach, A. (2015) The politics of nature in 'Praise of Ben Dorain'. In: Laplace, P. (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, A. and McLeod, W. (2015) Protest and politics. In: Sassi, C. (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, A. (2014) After MacDiarmid: creative writers, the canon, and the academy. Studies in Scottish Literature, 40(1), pp. 15-21.
Riach, A. (2014) The Borders, Scottish Literature and the Unanswered Questions. Eildon Tree: New Writing from the Scottish Borders and Beyond(24), pp. 17-19.
Riach, A. (2014) Scottish literature and Anglo-American modernity: what makes it new? In: Irimia, M. and Paris, A. (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, A. (2014) Wild Blue: Selected Poems / Dziki błękit: wierse wybrane. Wydawnictwo Maski: Gdansk, Poland. ISBN 9788364088025
Moffat, A. and Riach, A. (2014) Arts of Independence: The Cultural Argument and Why It Matters Most. Series: Viewpoints. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781908373755 (doi: 2014)
Riach, A. (2014) The literary vision or how to make things seen. In: Manfredi, C. (ed.) Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 151-168. ISBN 9781137401779
2012
Riach, A. (2012) What good is a canon? The case of Scottish literature. Anglistik, 23(2), pp. 129-138.
Riach, A. (2012) W.S. Graham and his Scottish contemporaries. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 4(1), pp. 65-75.
Riach, A. (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. (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. (Eds.) (2012) The Smeddum Test: 21st-Century Poems in Scots: The McCash Anthology 2003–2012. Kennedy & Boyd: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9781849211246
Riach, A. (2012) James K. Baxter and Robert Burns: the form of address. Journal of New Zealand Literature(30), pp. 52-73.
2011
Riach, A. (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. (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. (2011) Returning to Assynt. In: Archipelago. Clutag Press, pp. 58-71.
Riach, A. (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. (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. (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, S. and Riach, A. (2009) Demons in the machine: experimental film, poetry and modernism in twentieth-century Scotland. In: Murray, J., Farley, F. and Stoneman, R. (eds.) Scottish Cinema Now. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781443803311
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
Riach, A. (2009) The poetics of devolution. In: McGuire, M. and Nicholson, C. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748636259
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, A. (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
Articles
Riach, A. (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)
Riach, A. (2017) Before MacDiarmid changed Scottish literature, there was the Kailyard. National, 2017, 29 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star. National, 2017, 22 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) The conflict between Scottish poets in the 1930s. National, 2017, 15 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) Exploring MacDiarmid's Legacy. Part Two. National, 2017, 08 Sept.
Riach, A. (2017) The Revolutionary: Reconsidering the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. National, 2017, 01 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) Alan Riach and Sandy Moffat: The art of the human condition. National, 2017, 25 Aug.
Riach, A. (2017) Celebrating the dignity of diversity and Scotland's links with South Asia. National, 2017, 18 Aug.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent IV: From tales of Merlin and Arthur to the Agricola of Tacitus. National, 2017, 28 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent Part III: The Dream of the Rood to the Norse Sagas. National, 2017, 21 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent, the story of Scotland's literature, part II: Birth of the Democratic Intellect. National, 2017, 14 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent: The story of Scotland's literature, part one: from early times to Columba. National, 2017, 07 Jul.
Riach, A. (2017) Two of the great Scottish novelists: Muriel Spark and Robin Jenkins. National, 2017, 29 June.
Moffat, S. and Riach, A. (2017) The Buchenwald Memorandum. National, 2017, 23 June.
Moffat, S. and Riach, A. (2017) The lost art of Robert Noble. National, 2017, 16 June.
Riach, A. (2017) Hugh MacDiarmid and the meaning of independence: a post-election special. National, 2017, 09 June.
Riach, A. (2017) David Lyndsay - the man who gave ordinary Scots a voice. National, 2017, 19 May.
Riach, A. (2017) Passion and Ordered Energy: Alan Riach evaluates Gavin Douglas's effect on the Scots language. National, 2017, 05 May.
Riach, A. (2017) Enlightened Scotland: How the Age of Reason made an impact on the country's thinkers. National, 2017, 21 Apr.
Riach, A. (2017) Odd fellows: Alan Riach examines the colourful work of William Lithgow and Thomas Urquhart. National, 2017, 07 Apr.
Riach, A. (2017) Alan Riach: On film & film poetry. National, 2017, 31 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Earthly and unearthly powers collide: Ballads of poetry and song. National, 2017, 24 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Alan Riach examines neglected poets in a time of political transition. National, 2017, 17 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Mysterious voices and lasting truths: Alan Riach takes a literary tour of the Borders. National, 2017, 10 March.
Riach, A. (2017) Sport and God are Scotland's obsessions - why doesn't our literature reflect this? National, 2017, 03 March.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) In praise of John Berger Part Two: Scratching beneath the surface of art’s canvas. National, 2017, 24 Feb.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) John Berger: A dissenter who inspired fresh ideas. National, 2017, 16 Feb.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (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, A. and Moffat, A. (2017) Joan Eardley and the art of contrast. National, 2017, 03 Feb.
Riach, A. (2017) Sir Walter Scott – Bringing out the best in us... National, 2017, 27 Jan.
Riach, A. (2017) Masterly studies of divided loyalties: Approaching Sir Walter Scott - Part Two. National, 2017, 20 Jan.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2017) Home and away: Alan Riach continues his examination of how travel writing influenced Scottish literature. National, 2017, 06 Jan.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2016) The Bruce, The Wallace and the declaration of Arbroath. National, 2016, 23 Dec.
Learmonth, A. and Riach, A. (2016) This ‘Brutish’ view of the pro-indy side in verse could not be much worse. National, 2016, 22 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) Looking at Robert Henryson, one of the world's greatest poets. National, 2016, 16 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) 'Things are never fixed, finally formed and closed': Alan Riach on Scotland's literature media. National, 2016, 09 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) Screening literature: Alan Riach explores the links between Scottish writing, media and politics. National, 2016, 02 Dec.
Riach, A. (2016) A flyting philosophy distilled from Scottish literature. National, 2016, 25 Nov.
Riach, A. (2016) Visions beyond violence: Alan Riach examines modern Scottish literature’s response to war. National, 2016, 21 Oct.
Riach, A. (2016) Mapping the landscape of our literature. National, 2016, 14 Oct.
Riach, A. (2016) Scotland has always been a mongrel nation of healthy curiosities and zombie priorities. National, 2016, 07 Oct.
Riach, A. (2016) Reading between the laughter lines: Alan Riach explores the complex world of literary humour. National, 2016, 30 Sept.
Riach, A. (2016) Putting our identity into our own words - the connection between languages, literature and common humanity. National, 2016, 23 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) Notes towards a manifesto for uncertain times – the future for the arts and education in Scotland. National, 2016, 16 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) Friends in High Places: The art of William Gillies and John Maxwell. National, 2016, 09 Sept.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) Personal, powerful, political ... the overlooked work of artist Alice Neel. National, 2016, 02 Sept.
Riach, A. (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, A. (2016) Igniting the creative spirit ... a television series that left its mark. National, 2016, 05 Aug.
Riach, A. (2016) Scotland: The Promised Land, Part I: Unanswered questions, unfulfilled potential ... National, 2016, 29 July.
Riach, A. (2016) New eyes on old questions. National, 2016, 22 July.
Riach, A. (2016) Gerard Manley Hopkins - a poet who opened up many poetic vistas for Scotland. National, 2016, 15 July.
Riach, A. (2016) The legacy of Gerard Manley Hopkins lives on in his poetry. National, 2016, 08 July.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) How the Celts opened the gateway to a wider world: Europe, Scotland and The Celts: Part II. National, 2016, 01 July.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) There were many Celtic connections in the fight against reactionary imperialism. National, 2016, 24 June.
Riach, A. (2016) How music is attuned with our very identity. National, 2016, 27 May.
Riach, A. (2016) Hugh MacDiarmid's rallying cry on education. National, 2016, 20 May.
Riach, A. (2016) Hugh MacDiarmid's satirical to and fro with Glasgow University undergraduates. National, 2016, 13 May.
Riach, A. (2016) Why do Unionists want art to be universal? National, 2016, 29 Apr.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) How the state has a role in linking people to the arts. National, 2016, 22 Apr.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) John Bellany, Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. National, 2016, 25 March.
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2016) JD Fergusson: A dramatic fusion of art, nationality and modernism. National, 2016, 18 March.
Riach, A. (2016) It is hard to imagine a better choice of Makar. National, 2016, 16 March.
Riach, A. (2016) Modernist Shetland: MacDiarmid’s quest to unify Scotland's diversity. National, 2016, 11 March.
Riach, A. (2016) Modernist St Andrews - What really happened in the 1930s? National, 2016, 04 March.
Riach, A. (2016) Modernist Montrose: Scotland’s 1920s capital of culture! National, 2016, 26 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Elizabeth Melville! National, 2016, 19 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair! National, 2016, 12 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Duncan Ban MacIntyre and his Gaelic manifesto for land reform. National, 2016, 05 Feb.
Riach, A. (2016) Culture: Not just Burns – what about the poet Robert Fergusson? National, 2016, 29 Jan.
Riach, A. (2016) Not Burns – Dunbar! National, 2016, 22 Jan.
Riach, A. (2015) Hugh MacDiarmid and the borders of Scotland. Eildon Tree: New Writing from the Scottish Borders and Beyond(26), pp. 44-47.
Riach, A. (2014) After MacDiarmid: creative writers, the canon, and the academy. Studies in Scottish Literature, 40(1), pp. 15-21.
Riach, A. (2014) The Borders, Scottish Literature and the Unanswered Questions. Eildon Tree: New Writing from the Scottish Borders and Beyond(24), pp. 17-19.
Riach, A. (2012) What good is a canon? The case of Scottish literature. Anglistik, 23(2), pp. 129-138.
Riach, A. (2012) W.S. Graham and his Scottish contemporaries. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 4(1), pp. 65-75.
Riach, A. (2012) James K. Baxter and Robert Burns: the form of address. Journal of New Zealand Literature(30), pp. 52-73.
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. (2007) An introduction to the literature of Scotland and Glasgow. Anglo Files: Journal of English Teaching, 146, pp. 17-21.
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.
Riach, A. (2001) A conversation with David Daiches. Quadrant, 45(1-2), pp. 72-77.
Riach, A. (2000) Thinking of Norman MacCaig. Quadrant, 44(10), p. 56.
Books
Riach, A. (2022) Scottish Literature: An Introduction. Luath Press Ltd: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910022955
Riach, A. (2022) La poesia escocesa moderna / Modern Scottish Poetry / Poemes / Poems. Associacio Cultural Amics de Joan Valls i Jorda: Valencia, Spain. ISBN 9788412339130
Riach, A. (2017) The Winter Book. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910745939
Riach, A. , Moffat, A., Purser, J. and McDiarmid, H. (2017) Arts and the Nation: a Critical Re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781912147106
Riach, A. 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, A. ed. (2015) The International Companion to Edwin Morgan. Series: International companions to Scottish literature. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980144
Riach, A. (2015) The Birlinn of Clanranald. Kettillonia. ISBN 9781902944326
Riach, A. (2014) Wild Blue: Selected Poems / Dziki błękit: wierse wybrane. Wydawnictwo Maski: Gdansk, Poland. ISBN 9788364088025
Moffat, A. and Riach, A. (2014) Arts of Independence: The Cultural Argument and Why It Matters Most. Series: Viewpoints. Luath Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781908373755 (doi: 2014)
Riach, A. (2009) Homecoming: New Poems 2001-2009. Luath Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781906817091
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) The Scars of Billy Bones: A Toast to the Memory of Roberts Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson Club: Edinburgh, UK.
Riach, A. (2005) Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781403945914
Riach, A. (2001) Clearances. Scottish Cultural Press: Dalkeith. ISBN 1877270075
Riach, A. (1999) The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. Series: Scotnotes (15). Association for Scottish Literary Studies. ISBN 9780948877407
Riach, A. (1991) Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748602575
Book Sections
Riach, A. (2022) Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817; revised 1829–1830). In: Berndt, K. and Johns, A. (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)
Riach, A. (2020) Scottish literature, nationalism and the First World War. In: Rennie, D. A. (ed.) Scottish Literature and World War I. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474454599
Riach, A. (2020) Stuart Hood: literature, media and politics in modern Scotland. In: Hutchison, D. and Johnson, D. (eds.) Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle. ISBN 9781527554474
Riach, A. and Moffat, A. (2020) Sydney Goodsir Smith, artist and art critic. In: McCaffery, R. (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
Riach, A. (2019) Scotland: drawing a line. In: Archipelago 12. Clutag Press, pp. 95-104. ISBN 9781916446120
Riach, A. (2019) Location and destination in Alasdair mac Mhaigshstir Alasdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’. In: Szuba, M. and Wolfreys, J. (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)
Riach, A. (2018) This savage wood. In: McNeillie, A. and McNeillie, J. (eds.) Dead Ground: 2018-1918. Clutag: Thame, pp. 150-161. ISBN 9781999717865
Riach, A. (2018) Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism. In: Rosenthal, C., Volkmann, L. and Zagratzki, U. (eds.) Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs: Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 140-154. ISBN 9781527508682
Riach, A. (2017) Robin Jenkins: the short stories. In: Gifford, T. and Bicket, J. (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, A. (2017) Scottish Gothic poetry. In: Davison, C. M. and Germanà, M. (eds.) Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Series: Edinburgh companions to the gothic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781474408196
Riach, A. (2017) Alan Warner: timeless realities. In: Acheson, J. (ed.) The Contemporary British Novel since 2000. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 88-96. ISBN 9781474403733
Riach, A. (2016) Liberty and Scottish literature. In: Brown, I., Clark, D. and Jarazo-Alvarez, R. (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, A. (2016) Physician of Society: The Poet in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Williams, M. (ed.) A History of New Zealand Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 208-223. ISBN 9781107085350
Riach, A. (2016) Scottish poetry, 1945-2010. In: Larrisy, E. (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, A. (2016) To rise for a life worth having. In: Maley, W. and Lusk, K. (eds.) Scotland and the Easter Rising. Luath Press: Edinburgh, pp. 160-167. ISBN 9781010745366
Riach, A. (2015) Mr and Mrs Scotland are taking a vacation in the autonomous region. In: Falconer, R. (ed.) Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 21-31. ISBN 9780748696000
Riach, A. (2015) Introduction: presence, process, prize. In: Riach, A. (ed.) International Companion to Edwin Morgan. Scottish Literature International, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9781908980144
Riach, A. (2015) The politics of nature in 'Praise of Ben Dorain'. In: Laplace, P. (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, A. and McLeod, W. (2015) Protest and politics. In: Sassi, C. (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Poetry. Series: The international companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 156-168. ISBN 9781908980182
Riach, A. (2014) Scottish literature and Anglo-American modernity: what makes it new? In: Irimia, M. and Paris, A. (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, A. (2014) The literary vision or how to make things seen. In: Manfredi, C. (ed.) Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 151-168. ISBN 9781137401779
Riach, A. (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
Riach, A. (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. (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. (2011) Returning to Assynt. In: Archipelago. Clutag Press, pp. 58-71.
Riach, A. (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. (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
Riach, A. (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
Neely, S. and Riach, A. (2009) Demons in the machine: experimental film, poetry and modernism in twentieth-century Scotland. In: Murray, J., Farley, F. and Stoneman, R. (eds.) Scottish Cinema Now. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781443803311
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
Riach, A. (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. (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. (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
Riach, A. (2005) Norman MacCaig. In: Fazzini, M. (ed.) Alba Literaria: a history of Scottish literature. Amos Edizioni: Venezia Mestre. ISBN 9788887670127
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
Riach, A. (2002) Now. In: O'Rourke, D. (ed.) Dream State: The New Scottish Poets. Polygon: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748662609
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. In: Edmond, L.D. and Sewell, B. (eds.) Essential New Zealand Poems. Godwit: Auckland, N.Z.. ISBN 9781869620875
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
Riach, A. (1997) MacDiarmid's Burns. In: Crawford, R. (ed.) Robert Burns and Cultural Authority. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 198-215. ISBN 0748607404
Edited Books
Riach, A. (Ed.) (2017) The Hunterian Museum Poems: A History of the World in Objects and Poems. Freight: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908754783
Brown, I. and Riach, A. (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. (Eds.) (2012) The Smeddum Test: 21st-Century Poems in Scots: The McCash Anthology 2003–2012. Kennedy & Boyd: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9781849211246
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
Gifford, D.M. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (2004) Scotlands: poets and the nation. Carcanet: Manchester. ISBN 9781857547405
Watson, R. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1999) Annals of the Five Senses and Other Stories, Sketches and Plays. Carcanet Press. ISBN 185754272X
Calder, A., Murray, G. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1998) The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose Vol. 3. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857543780
Calder, A., Murray, G. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1997) The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose Vol. 2. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857542714
Calder, A., Murray, G. and Riach, A. (Eds.) (1996) The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollectd Prose Vol. 1. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857542349
Scholarly Editions
Moffat, A. and Riach, A.(Eds.) (2015) JD Fergusson: Modern Scottish Painting. [Scholarly Editions]
Audio
Riach, A. (2016) Alan Riach: The Birlinn of Clanranald. [Audio]
Supervision
- Di Rosa, Domenico
‘A Nameless Love’: Queer Relations and Selfhood in Modern and Contemporary Scottish Literature - Gilbert, Robert Adam
The Significance of World War II and the Changing Postwar Landscape of Scotland and Britain in the Writing of Eric Linklater - Strickland, Richard
Selected Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair