From a BBC Scotland interview with Prof Alan Riach (above) on the 10th November 2025, the text:

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Alan Riach (b.1957) Poet and Professor of Scottish Literature, Glasgow University. Born
Airdrie, Lanarkshire, studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow, worked at the
University of Waikato, New Zealand, 1986-2000, returned to Scotland 2001. Books include
poetry: The Winter Book (2017), Homecoming (2009), Wild Blue: Selected Poems (2014),
The MacDiarmid Memorandum (2023); criticism: Representing Scotland (2005), Hugh
MacDiarmid’s Epic Poetry (1991), and co-authored with Alexander Moffat, Arts of
Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (2008), described in the
TLS as ‘a landmark book’. His 734-page Scottish Literature: An Introduction (2022) was
described in The Times as ‘magisterial’.