Housmans are delighted to be serving as the Central London stop on Lalah-Simone Springer’s UK tour in promotion of her brilliant new collection of poems, 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 which is always there for the lonely, reaching out a hand, dreaming of a brighter future.

Joining Lalah will be Foluke Taylor and Stanley Iyanu and there will be an open mic session.

PRAISE for An Aviary of Common Birds:

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 clothes-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, bird of winter

An Aviary of Common Birds is a breathtaking collection. A celebration of Black womanhood, queerness and the endz – these poems exude vulnerability, and take us on a journey through love, community, and conviction.

— Desree, I Find My Strength In Simple Things

A thought-provoking collection exploring memory, relationships, and the commonalities between people. Lalah’s care. Her love, wit and frustration permeate through these poems.

— Yomi Ṣode, Manorism

This collection is connected to worlds beyond this time. Trust the invisible currents. I was led to history, to other poets, through love, and lust, and lostness and return. It was a timeless fluttering.

— Deanna Rodger, I did it too

As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.

If you choose book + event entry, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or have it delivered, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.