All are welcome to join our writing workshop, which this month will be led by Gaelic Bard, Anne Frater in Taigh Chearsabhagh on Friday 27th March, 10am-12pm. Its free to take part but spaces are limited and must be booked in advance, via our online ticketing system below. **Please note this workshop has a slightly earlier start time, at 10am.
Anne will also be reading for us at our Poetry Evening on Thursday 26th March, 7.30pm. Please join us and you can read at our open mic session if you wish!
From the Isle of Lewis, Anne Frater was brought up in the Point district of the island. Gaelic is her first language, and the language in which her poetry is written. Her poems were first published in Gairm magazine (1986) while she was a student at Glasgow University, from which she graduated with an honours degree in Celtic and French. After training as a secondary school teacher, she returned to Glasgow University, achieving a PhD for her thesis on Scottish Gaelic Women’s Poetry up to 1750. She is currently in post at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Lews Castle College, where she teaches Gaelic literature.
Anne’s work has appeared in two collections, Fon t-Slige / Under the Shell (Gairm, 1995) and Cridhe Creige (Acair, 2017). Anne received the Bardic Crown at the National Mòd last October, holding the title of Bàrd of An Comunn Gàidhealach this year.
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Image credit: An Comunn Gàidhealach.