Duncan McGibbon, Poet

DUNCAN MCGIBBON, CURRICULUM VITAE,

WRITING, EDITING, TEACHING, LECTURING AND TUITION

PROFILE E

A life-long poet and writer with valuable editorial and workshop skills.
I have always worked well in teams, whether leading them or working with them.
I am able to maintain an objective view on the relative value of texts with a diplomatic and engaging style.
I have a proven ability to lead and inspire a team during a period of development and growth.
Life-long experience of the arts sector, in literature with a knowledge of, proven ability in, and enthusiasm for poetry.
A consistent editor of journals and books.
A proven and popular teacher of individual poets and prose writers.
A clear knowledge of a variety of educational approaches and teaching practices.

EXPERIENCE E

Workshops.

Convenor, The Poet’s Voice, P.A Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute.. performances by contemporary poets such as Fleur Adcock, Jenny Joseph, Stephen Romer etc.2009-

Founder and Convenor, The Poet’s Voice Workshop. Poetry criticism and discussion. 2010-
Founder and Convenor; Editos, Berne, Prose and poetry criticism and discussion. 2004-2006.
Member: Writer’s Works, Berne, Switzerland. 2004-present.
Member: Potes, Geneva, Switzerland, UN and NGO group of poets: criticism and writing of poetry. Criticism and discussion of poetry. 2004-present.
Member: The Thin Raft, Workshop, University of Basle, Switzerland 2004-present. Academic criticism and discussion of prose and poetry. 2004-present
Founder: Poetry Workshop, Earl’s Court, (1983-present) then in members’ homes. London, Slough, Henley etc. Criticism and discussion with poets such as Elizabeth James, Richard Price, Jane Draycott, Cahal Dallat etc.
Member: Highgate Poets, Highgate. 1975-1978 Local Group: read with Peter Porter, and Alan Brownjohn.
Member: Poetry Workshop. Earl’s Court 1968-1970.High-calibre criticism of contemporary poets such as Peter Porter, Alan Brownjohn, George McBeth, Fleur Adcock, Philip Hobsbaum and Martin Booth.

Editing

Translator/editor Stienen, Angela;

Co-Editor Divers, an Anthology of the Poet’s Workshop 2006.

Editor, Manifest, UK magazine of poetry and prose; two issues. 1997-8
Editor Richmond Poetry Local Anthology
Editor, Blue Rat, UK ”underground” magazine of political commentary, articles, poetry and prose .Two Issues 1969-70.
Co-Editor, Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture Abdul Halim Sharar (Author), E. S. Harcourt (Editor),Fakhir Hussain (Editor) 1971.

PUBLICATIONS N

Poetry:

1967: Three poems in the Thamesian.

1969-1975: Eight poems in the Weekly Record. (St Mary’s College)

1969: Poem in Blue Rat

1974: Poems in Ventures (St Mary’s College Literary Society Journal)

1974: Two Poems in Jam (University of London Poetry Journal)

1974: Poem in Catholic Education To-day (Catholic Education Council)

1979-1983: Five poems in Kites 3, 4, 5 & 6 (Highgate Society)

1982-3: Two Poems in Richmond Poets (Richmond Poetry Group)

1992: Prose Poem in Gairfish

1995: Poems in Manifest 1

1996: Poems in Manifest 2

1998: Channel Vennell Press

2000: Stations of Love, a Cantata text, (Music by Joseph A. Estorniho) St Margaret’s Church

2001: (repeated 2001 Lenten Project)

2006: Poem in Aesthetica, Edinburgh

2007: Poems in Offshoots 8

2007: Poems in “Dan”?

2008: Poem in Kaktus, Basel

2008: Nine Poems in Divers, the Poetry Workshop Anthology Aark Arts

2009: Poem in Offshoots10, a Celebration, (Geneva Writers’ Group)

2009: The Consolations (Mulfran)

2009: At Lantwit Major (Poetry Spring)

2010: Three poems in Salzburg Poetry Review (University of Salzburg English Department)

2011:

Prose:

Short Story:

2010: Jigsaw Writer’s Works, Berne

Articles: Online Articles in *The Catholic Way (Suite 101)* On Line Articles on Suite 101 : What Is Grace?	Apr 25, 2012
Eight Pegs,the Poet, Tony Curtis and the Game-shoot	Feb 10, 2012
Gainsborough, the Subtle Art of a Landscape Painter.	Jan 8, 2012
Can God Get Through to Himself?	Dec 9, 2011
Rise of Nations or Rise of Factions?	Oct 22, 2011
Bath, a City Imprisoned in its Past	Oct 3, 2011
Origen on Christ in the Song of Songs	Sep 21, 2011
How to Keep a Job During a Recession	Aug 15, 2011
News of a Crisis, or a Crisis of News?	Aug 13, 2011
British Poet Translates a Treasure of the British Library	Aug 13, 2011
After Oslo, Has the Enlightenment Faded?	Jul 28, 2011
What Paul Tells the Church about Common Good in Romans 13:1-2	Jul 26, 2011
Sudeep Sen's Aria Creates a New Sign for Poetry Translation	Jul 2, 2011
Althea Romeo-Mark; the Voice of African-American Writing	Jun 28, 2011
Europe in Crisis	Jun 14, 2011
The Culture of Freedom and its Foes	Jun 6, 2011
The Call to Seek the Common Good	Jun 1, 2011
Is Faith Reasonable and Reason Faithful?	May 5, 2011
The Comfort of Dullness	May 4, 2011
Does Humanity Know What it Wants?	Apr 28, 2011
Finding the Sense to Life	Apr 26, 2011
The Desire for God	Apr 11, 2011
Is Life Meaningful?	Apr 10, 2011
At the Pegasus Theatre Oxford, a Breakthrough in Verse Drama	Apr 1, 2011
The Alpha Course, An Attractive Illusion?	Mar 20, 2011
The Fortunes of God	Mar 10, 2011
Mallarme and Ghalib Compared	Mar 3, 2011
The Charm and Profundity of Ghalib	Mar 3, 2011
Warhol: The Hungry Gaze	Mar 1, 2011
The Taste of Warhol	Mar 1, 2011
The Bittersweet Taste of Heda's Still Lifes	Mar 1, 2011
Seeing the Life in Heda's Still Lifes	Mar 1, 2011
New Life in Heda's Still Lifes	Mar 1, 2011
The Death of Paunescu: When Books of Poetry Kill	Nov 8, 2010
The Originality of St. Therese	Sep 29, 2010
Britain Tries See Why the Pope Came	Sep 27, 2010
The Pope's Visit to England: A Crisis Worsens	Sep 4, 2010
Tony Blair: The Blood Money of a Disgraced Leader	Aug 23, 2010
The Stock Market Crisis of August 2010	Aug 16, 2010
Britain Faces Disgrace Over the Pope's Visit	Aug 14, 2010
Can Ethics Succeed Without God?	Aug 1, 2010
Disaster Strikes the Pope's Visit to England	Jul 30, 2010
The Closure of Culverhay School	Jul 26, 2010
Dealing With Poor Job Performance at Work	Jul 22, 2010
Release of the Lockerbie Bomber	Jul 21, 2010
Maureen Dowd, Pulitzer Winning Journalist, Keeps Her Word.	Jul 20, 2010
The Double Dip Recession is Imminent	Jul 17, 2010
"Cor ad Cor Loquitur" Who First Wrote Newman's Motto?	Jul 14, 2010
Belgian Bishops, Moral Panic and Tomb-Raiders	Jun 28, 2010
Gustav Mahler Is Still Writing His Most Beautiful Music	Jun 24, 2010
Budget June 2010: The Poverty Grindhouse	Jun 22, 2010
A Pope's Visit Faces Disaster	Jun 22, 2010
The Poet as Pope	Jun 21, 2010
Pope's Grotto. The Legacy	Jun 19, 2010
Pope's Grotto	Jun 19, 2010
The Wife of Bath – A Pilgrim to Rome	Jun 19, 2010
Rome and Bath, the Poets of Two Cities Compared	Jun 19, 2010
The EU Wooden Horse Mechanism Will Not Fool Speculators.	May 8, 2010
Shakespeare's Fifty Third Sonnet, More Substance Than Shadow?	May 8, 2010
Noah's Ark Has Nowhere to Land	Mar 26, 2010
The Hungry Philosopher in Athens	Mar 19, 2010
The Sea Urchin, a Delicacy Known to Visitors	Feb 16, 2010
The Health-Food Philosopher in Europe	Feb 16, 2010
The Teleological God	Jan 28, 2010
The Secret of Gourmet Travel	Jan 22, 2010
A Designer Argument for the Existence of God	Jan 19, 2010
A Perfect Argument For The Existence of God	Jan 19, 2010
A Contingent Argument For The Existence of God	Jan 19, 2010
The Causal Argument For The Existence of God	Jan 19, 2010
The God of Philosophers Challenged	Jan 19, 2010
The Change Argument for the Existence of God	Jan 19, 2010
The Poetry of Food and Travel	Jan 2, 2010
Ontological Argument for the Existence of God	Dec 31, 2009
Winter Warmth and English Poets	Dec 29, 2009
New Light on Byron's Great Love Poem	Dec 29, 2009
The Dream of the Cross	Dec 20, 2009
Christmas Decorations Explained	Dec 19, 2009
Getting the Most Out of the Research	Dec 18, 2009
How to Write An Academic Paper	Dec 17, 2009
New Thinking on the Passion of Christ	Dec 17, 2009
Shelley's School Nightmare	Dec 14, 2009
Capital Punishment and the Philosophy of Right	Nov 15, 2009
The British Landscape Conserved by its Poets	Nov 15, 2009
Laurence Binyon, Poet of the Great War	Nov 14, 2009
The Rituals of Modernity	Nov 12, 2009
Mourning for Justice	Nov 11, 2009
The Day the Bomb Fell on Nagasaki	Nov 9, 2009
A Dying Emperor's Unsolved Mystery	Nov 5, 2009
A Gallery of Nazi Theft	Oct 28, 2009