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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 the Edinburgh area. In 1996 she won the Shetland Literary Prize with her first poetry collection Voes & Sounds and again in 1999, Wast Wi Da Valkyries. A third collection, Plain Song, was launched in Shetland and Edinburgh in 2002. It is accompanied by a CD of the poems, read by the author. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Swedish, Polish, Danish, Welsh and even English. She has read at over 130 events including Book and Poetry Festivals in: Edinburgh, St Andrews, Inverness, Wigtown, Shetland and further afield, in Helsinki. Her work is also found in numerous literary journals and anthologies including the recent multi-cultural Wish I Was Here from Pocket Books. This was a poetry-photography collaboration. More recently, she has had fruitful collaborations with artists. A pamphlet, Drops in Time's Ocean, was published by Hansel Co-operative Press, in 2004. It is based on eight generations of Christine's family, on her father's side. Another recent, but smaller, pamphlet published by Christine is Walking through Thyme. This is a sequence of poems based of emigration from the hill villages of the Comino Valley, in the Lazio province of Italy.