Audio

Listen to Christine speaking on BBC radio and reading some of her favourite poems.

Photo of Christine (right) and Rina Katajavuori (Left)

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.

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Photo of Mary Blance, Radio Shetland Presenter

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.

Low HighRadio Shetland Interview

Veeve

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
High Veeve
HighWirkin Tagidder

Dat Trickster Sun

High LowA Meditation Apön Takkin Wir Time
High LowConundrums
High LowDa Language O Wings
High LowDat Trickster Sun
High LowDis Material Wirld
High Low Discontinuity
Low DNA
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

Havera

HighWater

North End of Eden

HighAccidentals
HighAvoirdupoids
HighBlue Een
HighHairst-blinks
HighLove in a Caald Climate
HighTransformation
HighWirds: der a Pocky o Tricks

Parallel Worlds

High Low Celebrate 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 Low Whatsoever things are lovely

Plain Song

Wast wi da Valkyries

High LowA Strynd o Sense
High LowAa Change
High LowChemistry of Forgiveness
High LowCommon Science
High Low Da 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 Low Time Circles
High LowTrowie Tales
High LowWast wi da Valkyries

Voes & Sounds

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 Low Edinburgh 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 Low On 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 Low Thule revisited
High LowTirricks
High LowViking landfall
High LowVoices of Quendale Bay
High LowWan wirld at Bluemull Soond
High LowWife in ston

Poems

I dy stride / In your strideEdinburgh Museums, 2014
A Shuttle o SoondsThe Shetland Library, 2002 High Low
ShallsLuath Press, 2005

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Reviews

"Poems with a sense of place, sympathy, commitment to language."Douglas Lipton, Dumfries & Galloway Standard

Christine De Luca

Scottish poet