Christine De Luca

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Walking through thyme was published in 2004. It is written mainly in English and has 8-pages of poems and four colour photographs. The poems form a sequence based on emigration from the hill villages of the Comino in Lazio provence, Italy and trace the story, not just of Christine's husband's family, but of the many other Italian immigrants to Scotland.

You can read the title poem from Walking through thyme below:

• Walking through thyme

Drops in Time's Ocean was published by Hansel cooperative press in 2004. It is a 44-page pamphlet containing poems about eight generations of Christine's family, on her father's side. The poems are written in both English and Shetland dialect.

Here are a couple of poems from Drops in Time's Ocean:

• Da ship's carpenter: letters hame fae da SS Great Britain
• Maiden Voyage

Earth, air, water, fire was published by Hansel cooperative press in 2003. It is a 10-page, handmade pamphlet, which combines haiku by Christine with John Cumming's beautiful drawings.

These simple poems were set to music by Peter Davies and performed in Lerwick in 2009 by Andy Ross.