Simon Maddrell

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Poet, editor, educator & performer
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Biographer, Literary editor, Memoirist, Non-fiction writer, Poet, Spoken-word artist
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Simon Maddrell is a poet, editor, educator and wellbeing facilitator. He was born in the Isle of Man and now lives in Brighton & Hove.

Since 2019, over 200 of Simon’s poems have appeared in 26 anthologies and 80 publications including Acumen, AMBIT, Magma, Poetry Wales, SAND, Stand, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The London Magazine, The Moth, The Rialto, Under the Radar.

Collections

·   lamping wild rabbits, Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026

 

Pamphlets­­­­­­

·    Jo & Ni Go Cruising, Septum Press, July 2025

·    Patient L1, Polari Press, Feb. 2025
·    a finger in derek jarman’s mouth, Polari Press, Feb. 2024 (PBS Selection, Summer 2024)
·    The Whole Island, Valley Press, July 2023 (PBS Selection, Autumn 2023)
·    Isle of Sin, Polari Press, March 2023 (PBS Selection, Summer 2023)
·    Queerfella, The Rialto, Dec. 2020 (Winner, The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition)
·    Throatbone, Uncollected Press, July 2020

Simon has a background in development and conservation in Africa’s drylands. He is a world authority on sand dam technology, having founded Sand Dams Worldwide in 2002.
His writing is also influenced heavily by the Isle of Man, and his queer identity. Simon lives with HIV and  autistism.