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Existential paraglidin in Turkey - by Christine De Luca

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Tinkin on da haert’s topography
/ – heichts wir climmed, jimpit aff a,
/ aa but miracklin wirsels,
/ brinks o banks wir teetered apön –
/ wir…

T. A. Robertson

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Vagaland, along with William J. Tait, is the most significant of the Shetland poets of the mid-20th century.

Christie Williamson

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Christie Williamson is a Shetland-born poet and editor now living in Glasgow.

Robert Alan Jamieson

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Robert Alan Jamieson is a Shetland-born poet and novelist who writes in, and translates into, his native Shetlandic.

Lise Sinclair

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A native of Fair Isle, Lise Sinclair was a poet, musician and singer. Her work is found in far-reaching publications, and she set several of Shetland’s poets to music before her early death in 2013.

Christine De Luca

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Christine De Luca is a Shetland writer now living in Edinburgh. She writes her poetry in English and in Shetlandic, her mother tongue. She was appointed Edinburgh’s Makar for 2014-2017.

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