Wast Wi Da Valkyries
Subtitle: Poems in English and Shetland Dialect
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: The Shetland Library
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Shetland
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780904562644
Subjects: Shetland Isles; Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands; Alzheimers; Shetland Dialect; Scottish Dialects; British Dialects; Scotland; Norse; Shetland
Genres: Poetry; Prose
Description: Wast wi da Valkyries is Christine De Luca's second poetry collection to be published. It was published in 1997 by The Shetland Library and won the Shetland Literary Prize in 1999.

Her second collection develops similar themes to her first but also includes many landscape poems. The poems also move out to other parts of the world, and work in several timeframes.
Table of contents: title: Wast Owre; title: Idder Erts; title: Idder Fock; title: Idder Times; title: Survival Tactics; title: Poems for Bairns; title: Alzheimer Sequence; title: Postscript