Gillian Bickley
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Gillian Bickley

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Gillian Bickley (née Workman), born and educated in the United Kingdom, has lived mostly in Hong Kong since 1970. Her published work has two main streams: poetry and non-fiction. Her six poetry collections are: "Grandfather's Robin" (2020) "Perceptions" (2012), "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). "Over the Years" (2017) is her Selected Collected Poems 1972-2015, chosen by her husband, Verner Bickley. All have recently been released as audiobooks. "For the Record" and "Moving House" have been translated into and published in 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 six non-fiction works mainly with a biographical focus: "Journeys with a Mission: Travel Journals of The Right Revd George Smith (1815-1871), first Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong (1849-1865)" (2018), "Through American Eyes: The Journals (18 May 1859 - 1 September 1860) Of George Washington (Farley) Heard (1837-1875)" (2017), "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) (an edition of the 1897 work of future war fiction, "The Back Door"). With Richard Collingwood Selby, she co-edited selected papers of his father, Lt. Cmdr. Henry C.S. Collingwood-Selby, R.N. (1898-1992), published as "In Time of War" (2013). She has also helped several other writers prepare their books for publication. Gillian's poetry has been anthologised in Hong Kong, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Individual poems have been translated into several languages, some most recently published in Romanian and Turkish. Bilingual editions have been published in English / Italian and English / Romanian. Gillian 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 has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong and (from 2016 until recently) first Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, of which se is a Life Member. From 2010-2017, she was a member of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui History Advisory Committee and remains a member of the Church of England Records Society. With her husband, Verner Bickley, with whom she has travelled widely, she is co-founder of two annual international prizes for unpublished publishable writing submitted in English (may be a translation): the Proverse Prize for unpublished non-fiction, fiction or poetry and the Proverse Poetry Prize (single poems). Gillian believes that writers need to go out to meet their readers and has given many talks and readings in universities, schools, libraries, to community groups and membership societies and welcomes invitations. In the summer of 2014, she was an invited guest at the 18th International Festival, "Curtea de Argeș Poetry Nights", held in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, one-time capital of Wallacia and was awarded, by the Festival Board, the "Grand Prix Orient-Occident Des Arts" ("the East-West Grand Prize (for Arts)".
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