The site contains both Alison Porter's work as a poet and as the founder of The White Knight Theatre Company
The White Knight is an inventor, a benevolent fighter and above all a persister.
"He fell off in front...., he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways'".
Alison has a passion for bringing together artists from diverse disciplines to collaborate on creative projects. Originally from Birmingham, she studied modern languages at Leeds University, creative writing at the University of East Anglia and recently completed a PhD in verbatim theatre and criminal justice at Warwick University.
As a performer she specialises in movement roles, credits include ; Primary School Teacher in The Messiah directed by Deborah Warner, Magazine Woman in Marie-Gabrielle Rotie's Human Zoo, a tv producer in Plan B's music video Love Goes Down and a refugee in How to Hold Your Breath at The Royal Court.
Her poetry has been published in a number of anthologies and she was long-listed for the National Poetry Prize in 2015 and 2019.
She is also a trustee for the theatre companies ThickSkin and The Synergy Theatre Project and a former trustee of Out of Joint (now Stockroom) and Told by an Idiot.