Photography by Ray Roberts
Sim Pereira-Madder is a British born poet of mixed Brazilian/British heritage based in London.
His writing is characterized by small words and risk.
His poems are about wrongness, repair, fear, sex, death, love, and not knowing.
His work is published in journals including The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The London Magazine, Magma, berlin lit, The Interpreter’s House, Ink Sweat & Tears, Propel Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca, And Other Poems, Wet Grain, Partners, Live Canon Anthology, Aeos Magazine and was shortlisted for The Editor’s Prize, judged by Carl Phillips, at The Porter House Review.
He is an alum of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective (‘24/’25), and of the Obsidian Foundation (‘23 & ‘25), and a member of British Latinx poetry collective Un Nuevo Sol.
He is soon to be a graduate of the Writing Poetry MA at The Poetry School in London and serves as the poetry reader for The London Magazine, while working on a debut manuscript.
Other than poetry he likes bicycles, cheese, Excel, Summer, and cake.

