Anne Frater

Anne Frater (born 1967) is a Scottish poet. She was born in Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh), in Lewis on the Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar). She was brought up in the village of Upper Bayble (Pabail Uarach) in the district of Point, a small community which has also been home to Derick Thomson and Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a'Ghobhainn).

Style

Her poetry makes an in-depth analysis of identity and nation as well as love, landscape and language. She mainly writes in free verse.

Early life

Frater graduated from the University of Glasgow with a first class honours degree in Celtic and French. She received a teaching qualification from Jordanhill College of Education (now part of the University of Strathclyde). In 1995, she was awarded a PhD from the University of Glasgow for her thesis on Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750.^[1] She lectures at Lews Castle College in Stornoway (UHI, University of the Highlands and Islands/Oilthigh na Gàidhealtachd agus nan Eilean), where she teaches on the Gaelic-medium degree courses, and is Programme Leader for the BAH Gaelic Scotland.

Bibliography

Her poems are included in anthologies of Scottish Gaelic poetry: Whyte 1991a, Kerrigan 1991, Stephen 1993, O'Rourke 1994, Crowe 1997, Black 1999, McMillan and Byrne 2005 and MacNeil 2011.^{[citation needed]} She published in magazines such as Chapman and Verse. Her first anthology, 'Fo'n t-Slige' (Under the Shell) was published in 1995, and her second collection, 'Cridhe Creige' in 2017.

In March 2016, a selection of ten poems, Anns a’ Chànan Chùbhraidh/En la lengua fragante was premiered by her and Miguel Teruel, a translator, in a public reading at the University of Valencia, Spain. The poems were read in Scottish Gaelic by the poet and the Spanish version by Teruel's translation.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Frater, Anne (1997). Academic writing includes ‘The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750’ in Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan (eds), A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-14.

[1] Frater, Anne (1997). Academic writing includes ‘The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750’ in Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan (eds), A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-14.

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