Anne Frater
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Anne Frater (b. 1967) is a Scottish poet. She was born in Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh), in Lewis in the Outer Hebrides or 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 gained an honours degree (1st) in Celtic and French from Glasgow University. She then gained a teaching qualification from Jordanhill College of Education (now part of the University of Strathclyde). She was awarded a Ph.D from the Glasgow University in 1995 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 can be found 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.
- 1967 births
- Living people
- People from Stornoway
- Scottish women poets
- Scottish Gaelic women poets
- Scottish Gaelic poets
- 21st-century Scottish Gaelic poets