{"id":5223,"date":"2021-12-08T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T10:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T10:28:24","slug":"storas-beo-anna-frater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/12\/08\/storas-beo-anna-frater\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: Anna Frater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnnaagusPadruig\"The poet and UHI lecturer Dr Anne Frater<\/a> was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and 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.<\/p>\n

Here, she talks to P\u00e0druig Moireach for the St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal<\/a> project.<\/p>\n

In the first part she talks about her family and early childhood in Point. Her mother was a teacher and her father at sea. She recalls with appreciation her primary schooling at Sgoil Phabail, and the breadth of extra-curricular activity enabled by her teachers, extending into the 2-year secondary stage. Participation in inter-school activities and local mods, where she won her first poetry prize, is fondly remembered. The area has changed, with much less working on the land. There are many new houses, and more children around again now after a period when there were very few.<\/p>\n