China Suite and other Poems
Gillian Bickley
People, art and life. A record of a particular space in time. Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sukhothai, Honolulu, Mexico City, northernmost Scotland, Andorra. Intimates and strangers. A mother and son seen for some seconds on a bridge in Shanghai. The emotions flowing between performer and conductor throughout a concert. The interpretation one creative artist gives to that of another's work. Gillian Bickley values the records we all make: — the heritage we may or may not preserve, what we choose to reveal of our lives, the constant interpretative understanding of the personal as well as the historical past, and the sacredness of memory. Here we find observation and reflection – on current affairs as well as people and places – and also the frisson produced by five "skulls" in a window, a funeral owl caught in hire-car headlights, and the realization that classical stories are re-enacted in our own lives.
" … a collection refined by the sensitivity and spirit of a poet who observes with the wonder and clarity of someone who is at once an insider and outsider. In her works, we see that Bickley's poetry has the ability to provide both spontaneous, on-the-spot immediacy and lingering, contemplative power…. Every city may have its gaps, ambiguities and unknowabilities, and the poet's intimate and candid reflections in this collection have successfully uncovered some of them." – Hilary Chan Tsz-Shan, Reviews, Asian Cha, February 2010 (Issue 10).
"You are lucky to have this poetry in your hand." — Karmel Schreyer.
"The poems in CHINA SUITE are unpretentious, direct, and even raw, like gemstones freshly dug out of a quarry. The psychological boundaries drawn to separate cultures from cultures, clans from clans, and individual from individual are utterly destroyed. An unnoticed observer, she trespasses ethnic taboos and social no-nos, and writes down whatever she sees without getting caught—in a graceful way." — Elbert S. P. Lee
Duration - 1h 21m.
Author - Gillian Bickley.
Narrator - Gillian Bickley.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2009 Gillian Bickley ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Gillian Bickley
Gillian Bickley Poems
Proverse Hong Kong
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
People, art and life. A record of a particular space in time. Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sukhothai, Honolulu, Mexico City, northernmost Scotland, Andorra. Intimates and strangers. A mother and son seen for some seconds on a bridge in Shanghai. The emotions flowing between performer and conductor throughout a concert. The interpretation one creative artist gives to that of another's work. Gillian Bickley values the records we all make: — the heritage we may or may not preserve, what we choose to reveal of our lives, the constant interpretative understanding of the personal as well as the historical past, and the sacredness of memory. Here we find observation and reflection – on current affairs as well as people and places – and also the frisson produced by five "skulls" in a window, a funeral owl caught in hire-car headlights, and the realization that classical stories are re-enacted in our own lives. " … a collection refined by the sensitivity and spirit of a poet who observes with the wonder and clarity of someone who is at once an insider and outsider. In her works, we see that Bickley's poetry has the ability to provide both spontaneous, on-the-spot immediacy and lingering, contemplative power…. Every city may have its gaps, ambiguities and unknowabilities, and the poet's intimate and candid reflections in this collection have successfully uncovered some of them." – Hilary Chan Tsz-Shan, Reviews, Asian Cha, February 2010 (Issue 10). "You are lucky to have this poetry in your hand." — Karmel Schreyer. "The poems in CHINA SUITE are unpretentious, direct, and even raw, like gemstones freshly dug out of a quarry. The psychological boundaries drawn to separate cultures from cultures, clans from clans, and individual from individual are utterly destroyed. An unnoticed observer, she trespasses ethnic taboos and social no-nos, and writes down whatever she sees without getting caught—in a graceful way." — Elbert S. P. Lee Duration - 1h 21m. Author - Gillian Bickley. Narrator - Gillian Bickley. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2009 Gillian Bickley ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:14
Opening Announcement
Duration:00:00:11
1. Wish You Were Here in Hong Kong
Duration:00:03:59
2. Mythical Creatures
Duration:00:00:37
3. Passing Beauty (salon-wards): Caged Jaguar and free spotted girl
Duration:00:00:24
4. Ambiguous Communication: Crossing the road to the Library
Duration:00:01:09
5. David at Tai Po Market KCR Station
Duration:00:01:49
6. Tai Po Lady
Duration:00:01:00
7. Seen in Shanghai
Duration:00:02:01
8. Public Secrets at the Post Office
Duration:00:00:19
9. A Relative Quiet at Yam O
Duration:00:00:47
10. Wisdom at a Concert: Meeting a Meet Applause OR Concerted Wisdom
Duration:00:04:43
11. Ferris Wheel at Night
Duration:00:00:33
12. Street Triptych
Duration:00:00:23
13. Gangways
Duration:00:01:16
14. The Smell of Germolene
Duration:00:01:45
15. Microphone
Duration:00:00:32
16. Familiarity
Duration:00:00:33
17. Cornwall Road Garden
Duration:00:02:47
18. Morrison 200th Anniversary Conference
Duration:00:00:41
19. Shooting Star OR Heritage Hindered
Duration:00:04:54
20. Fisherwoman: One. Ashes to Water
Duration:00:00:47
21. Fisherwoman: Two. She Loved the Sea
Duration:00:03:50
22. Communicable Smile
Duration:00:00:48
23. On the Bus to Tuen Mun
Duration:00:00:54
24. Five Skulls at the Window
Duration:00:00:23
25. Security Unmanned
Duration:00:00:48
26. Applause OR A Simply Ambiguous Life
Duration:00:03:17
27. Truth Rules?
Duration:00:00:27
28. Waving Goodbye
Duration:00:00:23
29. The Flute Player: Sweet and Low
Duration:00:01:32
30. Sipping Tea at the Tea Museum, Hong Kong Park
Duration:00:01:12
31. "You Can Be Like God"
Duration:00:01:10
32. Weathervane
Duration:00:00:24
33. Double-Take: Recyled Reading
Duration:00:02:02
34. Beggarly Smile
Duration:00:00:54
35. Patterns in a Garden Suburb
Duration:00:01:26
36. Torch the Nest Egg!
Duration:00:02:07
37. Beijing in Blossom Time
Duration:00:01:57
38. Breakfast Time at the Friendship Hotel
Duration:00:00:47
39. Rose-petals: Dali and Carroll
Duration:00:02:33
40. Tengmalm's (Funeral) Owl
Duration:00:04:12
41. Knowing her Name
Duration:00:00:56
42. Penates
Duration:00:01:30
43. Word-diggers
Duration:00:03:01
44. Caring Professionals
Duration:00:01:48
45. Terrorism and Thought Control
Duration:00:00:27
46. Blogs (Web logs)
Duration:00:01:56
47. Anthropological Museum
Duration:00:00:20
48. Image[ination]
Duration:00:00:22
49. Imaginary Existence
Duration:00:01:06
50. Hukilau
Duration:00:00:59
51. Pollarded: Frank Coluccio Construction
Duration:00:00:27
52. Stop Requested
Duration:00:00:36
53. Spirit and Sense
Duration:00:00:16
54. Cassandra
Duration:00:00:45
55. Understanding Her
Duration:00:00:14
56. Leaving Clothes
Duration:00:00:41
57. Concerns
Duration:00:00:45
58. Cat-calls
Duration:00:00:52
59. Sukhothai
Duration:00:00:12
60. Pumpkin Man
Duration:00:00:55
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:30