Once voted “most likely to start the revolution” Rick Dove is a progressive poet and activist from Southwest London. Arriving on the spoken word scene in 2015, Rick has performed across the UK and internationally, with performance credits including The Wandsworth Arts Fringe, the Edinburgh Fringe, Greenbelt Festival, and Shambala Festival.

Dubbed “one to watch” by TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson, Rick has published two collections with Burning Eye Books, Tales From the Other Box (August 2020), and Supervillain Origin Story (Coming May 2023), and was crowned the Hammer & Tongue UK Poetry Slam Champion at the Royal Albert Hall in July 2021.

Equally at home on a stage, a page, or on a march, Rick has a vision of a fairer world and he wants to take you with him.

Rick has poems in Arachne  anthologies Where We Find Ourselves, and Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy.