GILLIAN BICKLEY'S fourth collection of poems in which she responds to people, art and life, creating a record of her particular space in time. Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sukhothai, Honolulu, Mexico City, northernmost Scotland, Andorra are among the places. Intimates and strangers are the people. She is interested as much in a mother and son seen for some seconds on a bridge in Shanghai as in the emotions flowing between performer and conductor throughout a concert, and the interpretation one creative artist gives to that of another's work. She values the records we all make: - the heritage...

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...