Over the Years: Selected Collected Poems 1972-2015

The poems collected in Gillian Bickley's 'Over The Years' have been selected from her five previously published collections.

"Not even the American minimalist William Carlos Williams could zero in on and capture a detail with more panache."
- David Wilson, Sunday Morning Post (on For the Record)

"The variety of human life and the individual response to life, these are Gillian Bickley's central interests."
- Emeritus Professor I. F. Clarke and M. Clarke
(on Moving House)

"playfulness and ironic humour ... a strong ethical sense and a constant and engaging lyricism"
- Marion Bethel (on Sightings)

"spontaneous, on-the-spot immediacy and lingering, contemplative power"
- Hilary Chan Tsz-Shan, Asian Cha (on China Suite)

"harmonious connections between individuals of different backgrounds ... [and] between humans and animals"
- Michael Tsang, Asian Cha (on Perceptions)

"...What firstly drew my attention was the savant level of her poetry; the science of balancing the rational with the sentiment...." - Dumitru M. Ion, Romania; Member of the Arts and Sciences Academy in R. Macedonia, etc.