GILLIAN BICKLEY has lived mainly in Hong Kong since 1970. This, the first of her five collections of poetry, puts some of her Kong Kong experiences on the record, narrating and reflecting on personal events as well. Her reading of all the poems in this collection has been professionally recorded for the two CDs packaged with the book. 此詩集包括了作者居港接近三十年期間創作的六十首詩作，大部份主題跟香港密切相關，反映作者的個人經驗和對香港的認識。曾經移民離開香港在海外生活過一段日子的讀者，大概能體會書中形容的旅港經驗。其他作品，則主要訴說和反映作者的個人事件或大家有所共鳴的關切事項。譯者周兆祥乃作者創作時於香港浸會大學的同事。Reflects the writer's personal experience and knowledge of Hong Kong, as well as presenting more personal concerns.~~"Gillian Bickley has the sharp eye and the strong stomach of the true realist. Brilliantly observed. Not even the American minimalist William Carlos Williams could zero in on and capture a detail with more panache. A thought-provoking and entertaining contribution to Hong Kong literature. Bickley succeeds in conveying the character of the Fragrant Harbour with humorous rigour." — David Wilson, Sunday Morning Post ~~"In For the Record Gillian Bickley inhabits a world of movement, traffic, construction and buildings, but her poetry sees through this to a nature of flying, singing birds and lush green trees existing in harmony or sometimes at odds with modern day Hong Kong. Her work offers a counterpoint of the survival and continuity of nature against which our busy everyday lives are measured. Bickley's Hong Kong is both a universal and a personal one and, like Italo Calvino's book The City, she captures a Hong Kong of the mind, the one city that we all share as a physical space against the myriad cities that we experience and perceive distinctly as our own. She skillfully fuses the human and the natural world". — Dave McKirdy, poet, The Asian Review of Books.