ISBN 9789628557059.
English Poetry - China - Hong Kong - England. Moving House and Other Poems from Hong Kong with an essay on new Hong Kong English language poetry, "Five New Scorchers Blaze a Trail". By Gillian Bickley. Preface by Professor Chung Ling, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. The audio CD included with the book contains a professional recording of all the poems in this collection, read by Gillian. |
Here is what some reviewers have said:
"Gillian Bickley writes as she responds to everyday events, always with the echo of 'time's winged chariot' in her ears. The fact of moving house sends her speeding back through the moves of a lifetime and forward to the last move, to the small room of the grave.
"The opening poem suggests the elusive presence of the author, and the deeper themes glimpsed through her deceptively simple poems.
"The variety of human life and the individual response to life, these are Gillian Bickley's central interests.
"The power that invigorates the poems in Moving House is the control of language. In this bare, tight poetry, no idle words are allowed. Its vocabulary draws on the base language of essences and epiphanies. The chosen spare language is the perfect partner for this poetry of mature experience." — Emeritus Professor I. F. Clarke and M. Clarke.
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