 He had been publishing poems in magazines since 1895, and his first collections in book form were published by Elkin Mathews in 1902.His collections of verse plays and dramatic poems "The Stonefolds" and "On The Threshold" were published by the Samurai Press (of Cranleigh) in 1907, followed next year by the book of poems, "The Web of Life".Despite his residence in London, and later in Gloucestershire, many of Gibson's poems both then and later, have Northumberland settings