Image of Sim Pereira-Madder at the Barbican shot by Ray Roberts

Photography by Ray Roberts

Sim Pereira-Madder is a British born poet of mixed Brazilian/British heritage based in London.

His work centres otherness, repair, wrongness, and the domestic realm, and is characterized by musicality, deadpan delivery, humour, and small words.

His poetry appears in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The London MagazineMagma, berlin litInk Sweat & TearsPropel Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca, And Other PoemsWet Grain, Partners, Live Canon Anthology, and Aeos Magazine. He was a member of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective (24/25), is an Obsidian Foundation alum, and a member of British LatinX poetry collective Un Nuevo Sol.

He serves as the poetry reader for The London Magazine, and is studying for an MA in Writing Poetry (Newcastle University at Poetry School London), while corralling work towards a debut pamphlet or something.

Other than poetry he likes bicycles, cheese, Excel, Summer, cake, and hasn’t won anything yet.