A bi-lingual collection of 40 poems, each in the original Shetlandic,
along with a version in English. The poems will be selected from several
of Christine De Luca's collections along with some as yet unpublished
poems.
Shetlandic is a unique 'dialect' or language, a blend of Old Scots with
strong Norse vocabulary and sound; the most distinctive within Scotland.
Nordic poets, when they hear it, describe it as a 'cousin language'.