Haiku Patches for Nigel, by Simon Maddrell

UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Patch for Nigel Young (1946-2022), by Jonathan Blake, Sue Vickery & Roxie Cressy 2022

Simon Maddrell

Simon Maddrell lives in Brighton & Hove, UK –– he writes as a queer Manx man, thriving with HIV.  He has appeared in fourteen anthologies and publications including AMBIT, Butcher’s Dog, Stand, The Moth, The New European, Paragon, The Raw Art Review, Prickly Pear and American Poetry.  His debut chapbook, Throatbone was published by UnCollected Press, MA, USA in 2020. Simon appears in The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2019, Black Mountain Press, 2020. Queerfella was Joint Winner in The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2020. Nine Pens Press published  All About Our Mothers with Vasiliki Albedo and Mary Mulholland in Jan. 2022.