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Christine De Luca
B. 1946
Scottish poet and novelist Christine De Luca was born and raised in Shetland. She writes in both English and Shaetlan (Shetlandic), the latter a form of Old Scots with much…
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Light Show at the Botanics - Christine De Luca
It’s November, a feral night and damply furtive. Scent of viburnum masks the fox’s stink. The pond is primordial its soundscape reptilian. Beams joust, lances tilt. If we weren’t wildly…
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Dat trickster sun - Christine De Luca
… ee day he fills your window wi shaeps o laands at you could mak your ain: islands beyond islands, draemscapes you could aa but map: a refrain o licht…
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I could blame da wye da sea is smoothed da steyns; da sylk o touch, da waelin, laevin; an will da haert be dere whin I come back? Or I…
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Sang o da makker - Christine De Luca
No one will ever know where the seams are where you begin where I end. I tize oot dy reffels, redd an caird dee, caa mi wheel an spin dee,…
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Love in a cold climate - Christine De Luca
It wasn’t his wooden paling nor the stone latticework set to break the wind, nor the heather he stuffed between fences; nor the seaweed he tore from the foreshore…
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What’s in a name? - Christine De Luca
If and when I have mislaid my name and stare at you disconcertingly let me spend a day parked by Suilven, perplexed by broken water. Turn my calendar to the…
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You are daunting, Vulcan, towering above me. Art shows magnificence well within your grasp as with your gammy leg and platform heels you stride the shining hall, hammer in hand….
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Valerie Gillies
B. 1948
…poet laureate to the city, a role that has since been taken up by Gillies’ contemporaries Ron Butlin, Christine De Luca and Alan Spence (Stewart Conn was the inaugural Makar,…