Poetry as Praxis
Once voted “most likely to start the revolution” Rick is a queer and neurodivergent poet and activist from South West London.Dubbed "one to watch" by TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson, Rick was crowned the Hammer & Tongue UK Poetry Slam Champion at the Royal Albert Hall in July 2021.Equally at home on a stage, or a page, or a march, Rick has a vision of a fairer world and he wants to take you with him.
Everything Everywhere
Rick’s work has been published widely, including: Spoken word albums with Nymphs & Thugs; in journals including, Bunbury Magazine, Soapbox & Untitled Writers; and in anthologies published by Arachne Press, Nine Pens Press, and Tonic Sta Press.Arriving on the spoken word scene in 2015, Rick has performed across the UK and internationally, with performance credits including: The Wandsworth Arts Fringe (2018 & 2019), the Edinburgh Fringe (2018 & 2022), Crystal Palace International Festival, Enrich Festival, and Shambala Festival (2022).
Solo Works
Rick's solo works, Haigha's Noosphere Canticles (WCH Publishing 2017), Tales From the Other Box (Burning Eye Books 2020), and Supervillain Origin Story (Burning Eye Books - Coming May 2023), explore themes of social justice, philosophy, and identity, and drawing on science fact and fiction, folklore, and mythology (with no small measure of mischief and provocation), to interrogate the liminal spaces that define our common humanity.Commissions have included new works for HouseFound (Level Centre 2022), and the Let Us Raze You Cohort (Raze Collective 2022).
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