Sightings: A Collection of Poetry
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GILLIAN BICKLEY, born and educated in the United Kingdom, has lived mostly in Hong Kong since 1970. Her books include China Suite and other Poems (2009), Sightings: a collection of Poetry (2007), Moving House and other Poems from Hong Kong (2005) and For the Record and other Poems of Hong Kong (2003), the latter two now translated into Chinese. She is the author of The Stewarts of Bourtreebush (2003) and The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) (1997), and editor of The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart (2008), A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong: Court in Time (2005; 2nd edition, 2009), The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897 (2002) and Hong Kong Invaded! A '97 Nightmare (2001). Her poetry has been anthologised in Hong Kong, the Philippines and the United Kingdom & translated into several languages. Dr Bickley was Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University for twenty-two years. She has also held academic positions at the University of Lagos (Nigeria), Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of Hong Kong. She is now an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. She is a Council Member, Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch). With her husband, Verner Bickley, she is co-founder of The Proverse Prize for unpublished writing.

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"Bickley has made use of everyday life situations and turned them into life lessons. 'Sightings' inspires us to slow down and taste the sense of the city." - Ma Kwai Hung, Examiner, Hong Kong Arts Development Council. "Gillian Bickley walks around the world with her eyes open, relishing the phenomena she passes as she makes fresh connections." - Harry Guest in "Preface". "In 'Sightings' Bickley hones in on an event or encounter, feels her way through the sighting and produces a compelling journey for the reader. It is, indeed, the feeling eye, the compassionate and insightful eye of the poet, which enables us to travel the landscapes, both physical and human, of Hong Kong and other places. This eye offers us vignettes and anecdotes that raise both metaphysical and ethical questions." "Bickley's poems are marked by a strong ethical sense and a constant and engaging lyricism that sustains her expression.... As an English-speaking poet she writes within that literary tradition but she also writes with a snese of place and her own unique perspective on being a belonger in Hong Kong." - Marion Bethel in "Foreword"."

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