Autor: Verner Bickley

The narrator of TIGHTROPE, an extraordinary, curiously intellectual small girl, undertakes the demanding and costly burden of comprehending the world. Her father – a peculiar leftist intellectual, an …

Lists and explains more than 800 of the sayings that football commentators use./Is an enjoyable reference tool which can increase readers’ understanding of English language football commentaries and …

The Honourable Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), MA, LLD, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education and Head of the Permanent Hong Kong Civil Service, was also a Hong Kong Police Magistrate. His work in …

In STEPS TO PARADISE AND BEYOND, which follows Footfalls Echo in the Memory as the second volume of his autobiography, VERNER BICKLEY describes the events and issues that were important to him during …

The work of 90 poets from around the world, selected from entries for the 5th annual International Proverse Poetry Prize (2020). With poets’ brief biographies as well as background notes on their wor …

The work of 69 poets from around the world, selected from entries for the 4th annual International Proverse Poetry Prize (2019). With poets’ brief biographies as well as background notes on their wor …

From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di (reigning 1402-1424) and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji (reigning 1425-1435) ordered eunuch Zheng He t …

Anthology of one hundred and thirty-nine poems, the work of eighty-nine poets, selected from those which were entered in the third annual international competition for the Proverse Poetry Prize in th …

Anthology of eighty-nine poems, the work of sixty-one poets, selected from those which were entered in the second annual international competition for the Proverse Poetry Prize in 2017./The Proverse …

An anthology of thirty-one poems, selected from those which were entered in the inaugural annual international competition for the Proverse Poetry Prize (single poems) in 2016./ The Proverse Poetry P …

Contains the work of sixty-seven poets from 15 countries. The one hundred and thirty-three or so poems were selected from those entered for the International Proverse Poetry Prize in 2021, the sixth …

In traditional tales, it is usually a prince who sets out on an adventure to prove himself and/or to achieve some noble outcome to benefit others. But in PRINCESS FLOWER, it is a princess who underta …