Edinburgh: Singing the City, published in 2017, is a collection of 40 poems written while Christine de Luca was Edinburgh Makar (2014-2017). Two poems are in Shetlandic, but all the rest are written in English.
About Christine
Christine De Luca (nee Pearson) was born and brought up in Shetland, spending her formative years in Waas (Walls) on the west side of the mainland. She now lives in Edinburgh. She writes in English and in Shetland dialect which is a blend of Old Scots with much Norse influence. Shetland dialect -or "Shetlandic" -is a lively mother tongue, stillvibrant and enjoyed both for its onomatopoeic quality and its classlessness. Her main interest is poetry, but she is also active in promoting work with Shetland children and has writtendialect stories for a range of age-groups. In addition to this, her first novel,And then foreverwas published in 2011. She was appointed Edinburgh's poet laureate (Makar) for a three year period, between 2014 and 2017.