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
2012
2010
1998
Thesis Title, Visual Arts Practice As A Basis For An Experimental Poetic Practice
MFA Creative Writing, with Distinction, Kingston University
MA Writing Poetry, with Distinction, Kingston University
BA (hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Teaching Experience
Jan–Apr 2019
Apr 2017
Jun–Oct 2016
Feb 2015
Aug–Dec 2015
Jul–Sep 2014
Sep–Jun 2014
Jul 2013
2012–2013
Tutor (Module Convenor & Lecturer), 6ABA0002: Surrealism Level 6, Comparative Literature, King’s College, London
Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art Anglia Ruskin University
Visiting Lecturer in MA Art & Design, CSVPA
Visiting Lecturer, MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London
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
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.
Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kingston University, BA CW6007: Innovations & Experiments in Contemporary Poetry
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Sep 15–17
Jun 2017
Oct 2010
Research Assistant to Professor Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge
Co-editor & producer MFA Journal, Kingston University
Editorial Assistant, Kingston University Press