Alison gained her PhD ‘Visual Arts as a Basis for Experimental Poetry’, in 2018 from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her focus was to establish the shared conceptual & experimental practices & theories of Marcel Duchamp & Gertrude Stein to situate a postmodern, contemporary poetic practice.

Alison has published widely in poetry magazine & anthologies including Long Poem, Poetry Wales & the Other Room. Her poetry books, a. Vase, Silent Diagrams and Parallel to Red in Chorus are published by the Knives, Forks & Spoons Press. She has performed & presented her work at conferences, reading & galleries.

Alison was resident at In(ter)ventions; Literary Practice at the Edge, Banff Arts Centre, Canada, 2012, Emerging Writer-In-Residence, Kingston University 2012, & self-directed artist at Bothy Project, Scotland, 2022.

Alison has an ongoing research practice choreographer & movement director, Elaine Thomas of Poetic, producing drawings, choreography, dialogues, sound-scores, texts, multi-media installations & performances.

Poetic Matter: An Interview is available to read at PRAGUK

Education

2018

PhD, Creative Writing, Royal Holloway, University of London
Thesis Title, Visual Arts Practice As A Basis For An Experimental Poetic Practice

2012

MFA Creative Writing, with Distinction, Kingston University

2010

MA Writing Poetry, with Distinction, Kingston University

1998

BA (hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Teaching Experience

2018–present

Senior Lecturer in Studio Practice, Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts BA, Graphics & Illustrations, Head of Level 5

Jan–Apr 2019

Tutor (Module Convenor & Lecturer), 6ABA0002: Surrealism Level 6, Comparative Literature, King’s College, London

Apr 2017

Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art Anglia Ruskin University

Jun–Oct 2016

Visiting Lecturer in MA Art & Design, CSVPA

Feb 2015

Visiting Lecturer, MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London

Aug–Dec 2015

Module Tutor in Creative Writing, Kingston University
I redesigned and taught the BA module CW6007: Innovations and Experiments in Contemporary Poetry.

Tutor, MA CW, 10 Critical Challenges Seminar, Kingston University

Jul–Sep 2014

MA Dissertation Supervisor, Kingston University
I was the critical and creative dissertation supervisor for a MA Creative Writing student specialising in poetry at Kingston University.

Sep–Jun 2014

Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kingston University, BA CW6007: Innovations & Experiments in Contemporary Poetry

Jul 2013

Poetry Tutor, Athens Summer School, Greece on behalf of Kingston Writing School & The British Council. I designed and taught a one- week intensive English language poetry course for adult learners.

2012–2013

Emerging Writer in Residence, Kingston University. I developed and taught a series of creative writing masterclasses, seminars, workshops and lectures aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students. I also co-taught on the BA CW, Innovations and Experiments in Contemporary Poetry, and the Introduction to Poetry modules.

Conference Papers & Presentations

Technē Congress, 10 & 11 Jan 2019, Royal Holloway, University of London. I presented, ‘Publishing Practice Based Research: Dance & Poetics’ & took part in panel discussion with other creative practioners.

The Vital Signs Festival 28-30 September 2018. In collaboration with choreographer Elaine Thomas, I was commissioned to give a performance and to deliver a workshop as part of the festival programme.

The Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry & Art Festival 2018, Kings College, Cambridge. I was a panellist on the ‘artists & poets exchange panel, as part of the festival programme.

Dance Fields Roehampton 20-24th April, 2017. In collaboration with Elaine Thomas, I presented performative lecture, texture. aesthetic. production.

How to do things with...The second annual Practice Research symposium, University of Surrey, July 2016. I presented, What Duchamp Said, Even. . . Annotations as Instructions for a. Performance Lecture, as part of How to do things with...Vigour panel.

Motif: 2014, RHUL Practice-based conference. I was the director of the 2014 RHUL practice-based conference, held at C4CC, Kings Cross, London.

E:Poetry 2013, University at Buffalo, held in London. I performed collaborative work, Thus in the crossing with choreographer and dancer Elaine Thomas.

Practice, Process & Paradox, University of Roehampton 2013 – I presented work in progress Thus in the crossing with choreographer Elaine Thomas & gave a performative paper on collaborative methods towards a shared poetics of making, entitled, Thus: a performative collaboration.

Beyond Calypso, University of Warwick, 2011- I was invited to write an introduction on Sam Selvon, The writer and the man, as the opening speech for the conference.

Beyond Text: Making and Unmaking Text, 2011- I presented a paper and a workshop on experimental practice.

Publications

a. Gender Bias Binding, Pertinent actions, Osmosis Press, (UK), 2023

Poetic Matter: An interview with Alison Gibb and Elaine Thomas, Praguk.wordpress.com, April 2019

Big Ballard, ‘hostile environments’ issue of Purge, (UK) 2019
I am knot. . .Poetry Wales, Spring, (UK) 2019

2x poem is the Poetry & Art Festival bi-lingual Anthology 2018, Cam Rivers Publishing Ltd, (UK & China)

a. Gender Bias Binding, Long Poem Magazine, Issue 19, (UK) April 2018

Duchamp i. love You, Adjacent Pineapple, Issue 1, (UK) Nov 2017

Check out. & hip hop & shoulder-pads, An Anthology for Robert, Poetic Research Centre Press, (UK) 2017 a.vase poetry & drawings collection by the Knives, Forks and Spoons, Press, (UK) 2017

I am knot. . . a. poster in pieces of POWER, bookwork, Ambergris press, (UK) 2016

“Smile. Love. It might never happen!” Poetry Wales, Winter, (UK) 2015

a.vase (work in progress) The Other Room Anthology 7, (UK) 2015

Alison Gibb on Bruno Walter, Kakania: an Anthology, Pushkin Press, (UK) 2015

Poetry from Parallel to Red in Chorus,’ The Blackpool Illuminations, (KFS & Arts Council England) 2014

Get.Pretty Girl, Colony Magazine, (IRE) April 2014

I am her.e, 3:AM Magazine, (UK) March 2014

Silent Diagrams, pamphlet, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Manchester, (UK) 2013

Kale.i.do.scope, Red log blog, (CA) 2013

Neon, Wasafiri, Summer, (UK) 2013

Pomegranates In The Oak, sound collage CD, zimZalla, Avant Objects, Oct, (UK) 2012

Paid.ia, THIS Corner: A Cambridge Poetry Magazine, (UK) 2012

Parallel To Red In Chorus, pamphlet, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Manchester, (UK) 2011

Readings and Performances

Long Poem Magazine Launch, Barbican Library, Barbican London, April 2018

Rolling Credits, G39 Cardiff, Wales, Feb 2018

FLIGHTS 1, The Horse Hospital, London, March 2017

The Cardiff Poetry Experiment, January 2017

Ambergris Press, Cambridge, Dec 2016

Encounters: Automatronic, St Laurence Church, London, Nov 2016

Mahu: Kakania, the Hardy Tree Gallery. London, June 2015

Amid the Ruins, Daniel Bleu Gallery, Hoxton Square, London, October 2015

zimZalla, Exhibition at the Hardy Tree Gallery, London, October 2014

Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, August 2014

Maintenant Camarade Poetry Festival, London, October 2014

The Other Room, Manchester, August 2014

Somerset House, The Museum of Water, June 2014

POLYply 29 Confessions, London, Poetry performance, April 2014

Wordpharmacy, exhibition & poetry events, Hardy Tree Gallery London, March 2014

Awards, Residencies and Nominations

Artist in residency in collaboration with choreographer Elaine Thomas, Hitchin Museum June 2023-July 2024, Perform Transform, BEEE Creative, https://beee-creative-cio.uk

Self-directed artist residency, Bothy Project, Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, 2022

Bradley de Glehn, Royal Holloway, University of London Travel Grant, Research trip to Yale, 2016

Studio space award, Wysing Arts Centre Cambridge from 2014 to 2018

Associate, Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre, 2015

My poem Neon was nominated by Wasafari for the single poem, Forward Single Poetry prize, 2014

Crosslands Scholarship, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013

In(ter)ventions; Literary Practice at the Edge, Residency at Banff Arts Centre, Canada, 2012

Emerging Writer- In-Residence post at Kingston University, 2012

MFA Creative Writing Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Kingston University, 2012

Kingston Writing School MFA Creative Writing Scholarship, 2010

Other Academic Related Work

Dec 2017
–Jun2018

Grade 7, Administrator, TES, University of Cambridge

Sep 2015
–2017

Research Assistant to Professor Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge

Jun 2017

Co-editor & producer MFA Journal, Kingston University

Oct 2010

Editorial Assistant, Kingston University Press