GILLIAN BICKLEY has lived quite often in Hong Kong on the grounds that 1970. This, the 1st of her 3 collections of poetry, places a few of her Kong Kong stories at the list, narrating and reflecting on own occasions as well.
"Gillian Bickley has the pointy eye and the robust abdominal of the genuine realist. Brilliantly saw. no longer even the yankee minimalist William Carlos Williams may possibly 0 in on and trap a element with extra panache. A thought-provoking and enjoyable contribution to Hong Kong literature. Bickley succeeds in conveying the nature of the aromatic Harbour with funny rigour." — David Wilson, Sunday Morning Post
"In For the list Gillian Bickley inhabits a global of circulation, site visitors, building and constructions, yet her poetry sees via this to a nature of flying, making a song birds and plush eco-friendly timber latest in concord or occasionally at odds with modern-day Hong Kong. Her paintings bargains a counterpoint of the survival and continuity of nature opposed to which our busy daily lives are measured. Bickley's Hong Kong is either a common and a private one and, like Italo Calvino's e-book the town, she captures a Hong Kong of the brain, the only urban that all of us percentage as a actual area opposed to the myriad towns that we event and understand particularly as our personal. She skillfully fuses the human and the normal world". — Dave McKirdy, poet, The Asian evaluation of Books.