Alan Riach is a poet and Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, and President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. His books of poems include Clearances (2001), First & Last Songs (1995), An Open Return (1991) and This Folding Map (1990).
Who better to help us celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns!

This is the stuff they’ve been waiting for. The mature Riach. The approachable, humane, bloody good writer who knows what has to be said and when to say it and when not to say it and – more than that – who has something to say and has to say it. - Kevin Ireland

Alan Riach’s writing ... gives a deeper meaning to everything we see with great humour and a hard spiritual edge.
- Scotland on Sunday Books of the Year

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