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Simon Maddrell
@simonmaddrell.bsky.social
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Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer. Sixth pamphlet ‘Patient L1’ out Feb 2025. Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026. https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Jan 28
Launches of Patient L1 from @polaripress

Launch Event Tickets: linkin.bio/simonmaddrell

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Photo: Mareike Günsche
Photo of Jonathan Blake with green filter overlaid with the following launch information. Brighton Launch of Patient L1 Lunch Positive Weds 19th Feb –– 7-8pm (Doors 6.45pm) Reading by Jonathan Blake with Simon Maddrell Q&A with Jonathan Blake London Launches of Patient L1 Positive East Friday 21st Feb –– 7.30-8.30pm (Doors 7.00pm) Reading by Jonathan Blake with Simon Maddrell Q&A with Jonathan Blake and Mike Jackson, Co-founder, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners The Common Press Thursday 20th Feb –– 7 for 7.30pm Reading by Simon Maddrell featuring Robert Hamberger reading Nude Against A Rock And Q&A with Jonathan Blake Online Launch of Patient L1 Monday 24th Feb –– 7.30 to 8.30pm Reading by Simon Maddrell Q&A with Jonathan Blake
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · 27d
Wonderfully kind blog about my performance at Poetry Cafe Eastbourne on Tuesday 9th. It was a pleasure to perform to such an attentive and appreciative audience.

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Simon's September Eloquence
Simon Maddrell as September's Guest Poet was a joy to behold, to hear and to learn from. Stunning in its content and beautifully rhythmic in its heart beat paced delivery, Simon's set was sharply focu...
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · Sep 4
In 'Bringing Pilates to Attention', Simon Maddrell / @simonmaddrell.bsky.social highlights the development of Pilates while exploring the idea of correction and repair.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/simon-maddre...

#InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image: Man doing pilates, legs raised in the air Text: Bringing Pilates to Attention Four years in Knockaloe was a living inspiration for inventor Joseph Pilates. Simon Maddrell©
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Aug 21
You only need to read the first poem of Natalie Shapero‘s Stay Dead to know how good her new collection from @outspokenpress.bsky.social is going to be.
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Aug 18
I’m very proud to have had three pamphlets published by @polari.press
I stand “full square behind” Peter Collins and their commitment to platforming LGBTQ+ voices.
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Polari Press @polari.press · Aug 18
Polari Press statement on the unaffiliated Polari Prize.

As director of Polari Press, a queer-focused independent publishing house and design practice, I've been watching the developments of this year’s Polari Prize.

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Polari Press statement on the unaffiliated Polari Prize. As director of Polari Press, a queer-focused independent publishing house and design practice, I've been watching the developments of this year's Polari Prize. I hadn't wanted to comment because I feared this would add, rather than reduce, any possible confusion. As time has gone on, however, I feel it necessary to clarify things, as well as reassert my values. Polari Press was founded in 2020 by me, Peter Collins, and has no association or affiliation with the Polari Prize or Polari Literary Salon. 1/2 Defending the rights of trans people is vital to me. As a gay man who grew up under the cloud of Section 28, I see today's transphobia for what it is: an all-too-loud echo of the homophobia that weighed heavily on my younger self, regurgitated and repackaged for a new era of bigotry. For the record, l'd never knowingly publish a book by an author with transphobic views. Polari-the queer language made necessary due to discrimination and criminalisation against us-holds an important place in our shared history, and it means a great deal to me personally. I plan to continue using it as the name for my practice. Peter Collins Founder & director Polari Press 2/2
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Jun 1
#gaza #freepalestine #stopthegenocide #endwarcrimes #permanentceasefire #stopstarvation #endtheoccupation #endapartheid #endarmssalestoisrael #nospyplanes
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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · Jun 26
This weekend, our final two returning guests for our annual Pride Poetry Party 🏳️‍🌈 on Eat the Storms are @simonmaddrell.bsky.social from the Isle of Man and m, from Wales, David Hanlon

Tune in on most platforms to ensure you Stay Bloody Poetic and damn Proud 🏳️‍🌈
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Jun 28
New Pamphlet Alert!!!!
Out July.
20% Off pre-orders.

Jo & Ni Go Cruising
Limited Edition of 100

This wonderful stitched pamphlet contains 'found poems' from the holiday journal of teacher, poet, playwright and activist Nigel Young (1946-2022).

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eche poetry @echepoetry.bsky.social · Jun 17
From ‘Burial Plots’ by Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social

read the full poem at www.echepoetry.co.uk/one
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Jun 7
Surely the challenge is getting readings, and the further away from publication date it is, the harder it is — unless propelled by prizes.
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Nora Blascsok @nblascsok.bsky.social · Jun 1
Lovely to have a new poem out in this brand new mag alongside my friend @simonmaddrell.bsky.social & other fab poets

read my piece here:
www.echepoetry.co.uk/one/blascsok
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Jun 1
#gaza #freepalestine #stopthegenocide #endwarcrimes #permanentceasefire #stopstarvation #endtheoccupation #endapartheid #endarmssalestoisrael #nospyplanes
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · May 29
For those who love my garden pics — I have four ‘garden themed’ poems featured in the latest episode of Poetry Worth Hearing

Read here:
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Listen here:
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Poetry Worth Hearing: Episode 33
This episode opens with a selection of poems from David Constantine's A Bird Called Elaeus, introduced and read by the author. Many thanks to Bloodaxe for allowing us to usse these poems. The prompt f...
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Apr 21
Delighted to be in this Sídhe Press anthology available from here: www.sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay...
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Proceeds to Gaza
Cover of To Lay Sun Into A Forest - Poems About Grief by Sídhe Press. There is a swirl of a painting, red, yellow, orange, you can see the brushstrokes. On it is the title in a handwriting font.
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Apr 11
They should be significantly ‘Water Positive’ in the areas they site these places. By their very nature they are in semi-arid areas where water stress is a problem already.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social · Mar 20
I did a small interview for the Southbank Centre's How I Create magazine series where I spoke about the various plates I spin and the difference between art and creativity.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/magazine/how...
How I create… with poet Anthony Anaxagorou | Southbank Centre
From the need for music to thriving on feedback, get an understanding of how the award-winning poet crafts his lines.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Mar 18
From 18-25 March, #BigGive is doubling every donation made to @creativefutureuk.bsky.social 📣
The Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national writing competition for ALL underrepresented writers. Your donation will help keep it free!
Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 18
Ozymandias
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · Mar 7
Thanks for reading and sharing today's poem - Strings & Whistles by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · Mar 7
Strings & Whistles – Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social

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Strings & Whistles – Simon Maddrell
Strings & Whistles .. .. Simon Maddrell has appeared in AMBIT, The Moth, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Stand, Under the Radar and many others. He has five pamphlets with his fifth, a finger in dere…
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Mar 18
Interview on Manx Radio Spotlight programme about my verse memoir in the voice of Jonathan Blake ‘Patient L1’ from Polari Press.

@polari.press @jonb-2149.bsky.social @manxradio.bsky.social
SPOTLIGHT 05 FEBRUARY 2025
YouTube video by Manx Radio
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Mar 7
Delighted to appear as a TLC Showcase talking about the two Free Reads I received thanks to @newwritingsouth.bsky.social and @arvonfoundation.bsky.social for my new — but yet to be finalised — debut collection with @outspokenpress.bsky.social

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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Mar 7
Thanks so much to @hollyannepoet.bsky.social and @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social fir publishing this poem
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · Mar 7
Strings & Whistles – Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social

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Strings & Whistles – Simon Maddrell
Strings & Whistles .. .. Simon Maddrell has appeared in AMBIT, The Moth, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Stand, Under the Radar and many others. He has five pamphlets with his fifth, a finger in dere…
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Mar 2
Don’t forget this is the man who didn’t say to Netanyahu ‘Dud you say thank you? Your war would have been over in 3 weeks if it wasn’t for the US. We helped you kill over 71,000 people.’
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · Mar 2
I now have a website — supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Thanks @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Link in bio
www.simonmaddrell.com
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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · Feb 24
Wonderful online launch of ‘Patient L1’ - a fantastic verse memoir by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social speaking in the voice of @jonb-2149.bsky.social -from @polari.press. 🤩 ‘I’ll live a lot longer than you think…’
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