The Common Press Evening with Lalah-Simone Springer - 8 March 2024 part of The Common Birds Tour
The Common Press is excited to welcome Lalah-Simone Springer for an evening of performance from 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm. Lalah-Simone Springer's debut poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer,
working-class perspective.
You can Bring Your own Booze (BYOB)- there will hot drinks and soft drinks available in the bookshop.
‘Alive with the street songs of East London, Lalah-Simone Springer’s searching, tender poems speak through the sensory worlds of a first date ‘lesbian manicure’, the ‘shukka-shukka sound’ of competitive hand-washing, the ‘sharp shock of pink, juicy fruit’. Moving
from loss and desolation into a new-found-land of queer rapture, An Aviary of Common Bird’s voices capture the raw immediacies of desires and their fulfilments. Intoxicating and compelling, these spaces of transformation, liberation and self-claiming are urgently
generous.’ - alice hiller
About An Aviary of Common Birds
An Aviary of Common Birds is Lalah-Simone Springer’s first collection of poetry. It is an emotionally raw work built on the poet’s deep wells of inner strength and heart-warming sensitivity. Springer’s poetry asks questions about love, family, community, and working-class relationships, and at the heart of the writing is acceptance. An Aviary of Common Birds is a collection that is always there for the lonely, reaching out a hand, dreaming of a brighter future.
About Lalah-Simone Springer
Lalah-Simone Springer is a poet and speculative fiction writer from Dagenham. Lalah’s first poetry collection, An Aviary of Common Birds will be published by Broken Sleep Books in August 2023 . In 2022, they released the first single from their upcoming collaborative
spoken word album, Cyclical Music. Lalah was long-listed for the Merky New Writers Prize in 2021 and has been published on the ANTHEMS podcast, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Onyx Magazine and more. Previous collaborations as a performance artist have been staged at The Barbican,
Whitechapel Gallery, Folkstone Fringe and Almanac Project Space.
lalahspringer.com
Event Information
- 6.30 pm - Doors open
- 7 pm - Performance by Lalah-Simone Springer (20 mins)
- 7.20 pm - Comfort break
- 7.40 - Book signing
- 8pm - Open Mic (themed around the collection - connection, community, love and loss)
This event is taking place in the bookshop, which is wheelchair accessible.