Anne Frater
Anne Frater is a Scottish poet. She was born in Stornoway, in Lewis in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles. She was brought up in the village of Upper Bayble in the district of Point, a small community which has also been home to Derick Thomson and Iain Crichton Smith.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 in Celtic and French from Glasgow University. She then gained a teaching qualification from Jordanhill College of Education. She was awarded a Ph.D from the Glasgow University in 1995 for her thesis on Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750. She lectures at Lews Castle College in Stornoway, where she teaches on the Gaelic-medium degree courses, and is Programme Leader for the BAH Gaelic Scotland.
