Anne Frater

Her poetry makes an in-depth analysis of identity and nation as well as love, landscape and language.

[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.

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.

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.