The fifty poems collected in Gillian Bickley’s Over The Years have been selected by Verner Bickley from her five previously published collections, four of which received publication grants from Hong Kong Arts Development Council. "What firstly drew my attention was the savant level of her poetry; the science of balancing the rational with the sentiment. Each of her poems is sometimes a small novel, an essay or at other times a lyrical sublimate. Her poems are remembrances: from the past (an ancient past, a medieval past, and so on), from her own past or a possible reader’s past." — Dumitru M. Ion (Romania)