Poetry at Your Place feat. Rick Dove

Come join us at New Zealand's only regular online poetry event this Sunday for our much loved open mic, with poets performing from all over the world, and feature session! This time with a 20 minute set from UK Hammer & Tongue National Slam Champion: Rick Dove!!!

Note: You can also watch on Facebook Live, but won’t be able to interact as much - https://www.facebook.com/YourPlaceEvents

Also note: Your Place is an intentional safe, accessible space where hate speech and offensive language and images will not be tolerated - and will be immediately met with a ban from our moderators.

Rick Dove is a queer, mixed-race, and neurodiverse poet and storyteller. His work explores themes of identity, epistemology and social justice using a blend of traditional, spoken-word, and free-verse styles, in order to interrogate the liminal spaces that define us all.

He has been published in an eclectic mix of publications including; The Morning Star, Bunbury Magazine, the Guardian Online, Untitled Writers, and the London Spoken Word Anthology 2015-2016. Notable readings have included Shared Spaces at Tate South London Library, Beyond Words at the Crystal Palace International Festival, Other Voices at the Edinburgh Fringe, and two years with the Big Red Poetry Tour in association with The Errant Stage (a solar powered mobile stage van) as part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe. Rick’s work has been described as “sonorous in every sense” and “akin to a secret being delicately unwoven”. And he was dubbed "one to watch" by TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson in 2019.

Rick's debut full collection, Tales From the Other Box, was published in August 2020. Rick was crowned the H&T National Poetry Slam Champion 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall on 4th July 2021.

As always, this event at Your Place is pay-what-you-can-afford on the night via PayPal or bank transfer. And if you can't afford anything that's ok - but please do help us out by telling some people about the event and sharing it around