Bashabi Fraser, in conversation with Roddy Gow, discusses her two recent poetry collections: Habitat (2023) and Patient Dignity (2021).
About the speaker
Dr Bashabi Fraser, CBE, HonFASL, is an award-winning poet, children’s writer, translator, editor and academic. She is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and Co-Founder and Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs). Bashabi has written and edited 25 books, published several articles/chapters in international journals/books and has been widely anthologised as a poet. She is on the Editorial Board of several international journals and is Chief Editor of Gitanjali and Beyond. Bashabi is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, an Hon’y Fellow at CSAS, University of Edinburgh and has been declared an Outstanding Woman of Scotland by the Saltire Society in 2015.
