Audio
Listen to Christine speaking on BBC radio and reading some of her favourite poems.
Christine and Rina Katajavuori recorded a conversation for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour as part of the 2008 series, With Love From Me To You. The series documented communication between writers; in this case via email.
Christine talks to BBC broadcaster Mary Blance about her life and her poetry. The programme was part of Radio Shetland's In Aboot Da Night series and is interspersed with some of Christine's favourite songs.
- HighAa i da sam boat
- HighAedge o Time
- HighBöl wi da birds
- HighBeach Wark
- HighBonnhoga
- HighClos encoonters
- HighCoonterpoint
- HighDa gift
- HighFair wadder mizzlin
- HighHinny-spot, Sooth Whiteness
- HighHunkered Doon
- HighIvery day, reboarn
- HighIvver decreasing circles
- HighMakkin History
- HighNew Horizons
- HighOlympic runes
- HighOn aedge
- HighOn Seein Munch's Da Scream
- HighPilgrimage
- HighRuby Grace
- HighSang o da Makker
- HighSang on Laevin
- HighSecond Sicht
- HighSecrets o da burn
- HighSisters
- HighSoondscapes
- HighStills
- HighStrangin
- HighStumbling on ghosts
- HighSwan Sang
- HighTourniquet
- HighUnrefflin
- HighVeeve
- HighWirkin Tagidder
- High LowA Meditation Apön Takkin Wir Time
- High LowConundrums
- High LowDa Language O Wings
- High LowDat Trickster Sun
- High LowDis Material Wirld
- High LowDiscontinuity
- LowDNA
- High LowInto The Ordinary Day: Inteemation
- High LowNaethin But Big Flooers
- High LowSeekin Paece
- High LowSome Days Wirds Come
- High LowSphagnum Moss
- High LowTievin Wir Metadata
- HighWater
- HighAccidentals
- HighAvoirdupoids
- HighBlue Een
- HighHairst-blinks
- HighLove in a Caald Climate
- HighTransformation
- HighWirds: der a Pocky o Tricks
- High LowCelebrate in wirds
- High LowCover up
- High LowMakkin Sooth Eshaness - Blendin colours
- High LowMakkin Sooth Eshaness - Castin aff
- High LowMakkin Sooth Eshaness - Setting pattrens
- High LowParallel worlds
- High LowWhatsoever things are lovely
- High LowA Shuttle o Soonds
- High LowDa Nort Boat
- High LowPaes Eggs
- High LowPlain Song 1
- High LowPlain Song 2
- High LowSt Ninian's Isle
- High LowA Strynd o Sense
- High LowAa Change
- High LowChemistry of Forgiveness
- High LowCommon Science
- High LowDa Cockle Shall
- High LowDa Factor Meets his Match
- High LowDa Fremd
- High LowEaster in Manhattan
- High LowExorcised
- High LowFacts o Life
- High LowGale Warning
- High LowGrandpa
- High LowGrowin Auld
- High LowHairst Mön owre Hjøllund
- High LowHallowe'en Hansel
- High LowHigh Lights of Christmas
- High LowHow Beautiful are the Feet
- High LowIn the Mind's Eye
- High LowLizzie Coutts' Knowe
- High LowMadonna of the Portraits
- High LowMagnus, da Yöl Pony
- High LowMarking Time
- High LowMissing Canvases
- High LowMyl-gruel at da Millenium
- High LowNamin da Peerie Isles
- High LowPetals on a Simmer Wind
- High LowPilgrim Hills, Iona
- High LowPortrait o a Lady
- High LowPrimary Colours
- High LowReefed in
- High LowRitual Cleansing
- High LowRoond da Wirld
- High LowRose Petals and Stone
- High LowSlipping Chains
- High LowStone and Sacrament
- High LowSurvival Tactics
- High LowTelling the Time
- High LowTerms of Carriage
- High LowTime Circles
- High LowTrowie Tales
- High LowWast wi da Valkyries
- High LowA baby's smile
- High LowA peerie codicil
- High LowAirborne over Orkney
- High LowAlzheimers
- High LowApproaching Christmas
- High LowBody chemistry
- High LowBreaking the journey
- High LowBrekken beach, nort Yell
- High LowBrooch with three Nornes
- High LowCity life
- High LowDee an me
- High LowDominion
- High LowEdinburgh volte-face
- High LowFocal length
- High LowFowl play
- High LowGyaain fur da mylk
- High LowGyaain ta da eela
- High LowIn your orbit
- High LowIsland Home-comings
- High LowLönabrack at Littlure
- High LowLife falls in pleasant places
- High LowLove can be
- High LowMiddle age comes kindly
- High LowMoment of belonging
- High LowOn the death of my father at Christmas
- High LowOn the death of my mother at midsummer
- High LowPaet wark
- High LowPrivate laand
- High LowQueer things, smiles
- High LowRespite in Wonderland
- High LowSome fling
- High LowSouth African poet
- High LowSpring break
- High LowSurface tension
- High LowTagidderness
- High LowThule revisited
- High LowTirricks
- High LowViking landfall
- High LowVoices of Quendale Bay
- High LowWan wirld at Bluemull Soond
- High LowWife in ston
Poems
- Glinderin
- Viking Landfall / Vikingar, landkjenning / Landnám víkingaUra Forlag, 2017
- Fire-Sang CycleTextualities, 2009
Reviews
- "The relationships of the characters remain at the centre of the book"Mark Ryan Smith, The New Shetlander, Yule Issue 2011 No 258
- "Her poetry - forthright but subtle - is a pleasure to read."New Playwriting Scotland, Winter Issue, 97/98
- "Go and find this book."Laurna Robertson, Northwords Now, Winter Issue, 08/09