About Me
Lalah-Simone Springer is a poet and speculative fiction writer (she/they). Lalah’s first poetry collection, An Aviary of Common Birds was published by Broken Sleep Books in August 2023 .
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.
Lalah’s writing considers themes of mental health, alienation, love and growth from a queer, Black, working class, feminist perspective.
Marketing Consultancy
Alongside writing, Lalah-Simone Springer is a marketing professional who has previously worked with NHS Digital, the BBC, Apples and Snakes, Barnardo’s and London College of Fashion, UAL.
They are currently marketing lead for experimental theatre production company and community arts space Hackney Showroom, while leading on communications for Newham’s Arts Council-funded Creative People and Places Programme.
Art & Performance
In 2022, they released the first single from their upcoming collaborative spoken word album, Cyclical Music.
Previous collaborations as a performance artist have been staged at The Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, Folkstone Fringe and Almanac Project Space.
Lalah is currently available to perform at events.
Podcasting & Journalism
Lalah previously worked in healthcare journalism, reporting for titles such as Nursing in Practice and Pulse Magazine.
Through frequent collaboration with independent podcast production company Rethink Audio, Lalah has developed skills in finding and telling real people’s stories, whether sourcing interviewees for legendary DJ Annie MacManus’ podcast Changes or for award-winning Guardian podcast Close Encounters with BBC’s Alix Fox.
Praise for
An Aviary of Common Birds
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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
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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
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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