Alan Riach


Alan Riach is a Scottish poet and academic.
He was born in 1957 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Gravesend Grammar School for Boys, Churchill College, Cambridge and the University of Glasgow. He taught at the University of Waikato in New Zealand from 1986 until 2001. He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Riach is a regular contributor to The National.

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