Join us for a unique night of wild and restless joy with a brilliant line up of some of the most exciting cross-genre poets working in the UK.

Join us at Medway River Lit for Poetry Republic - Meanderslam! For the first ever Medway River Lit slam! with a performance by Lalah-Simone Springer

In October join Newham Poetry Group for a four-session series celebrating Black History Month featuring Black artists from various creative fields.   

An afternoon of talks and readings by LGBT+ poets, writers and non-fiction writers. Programme and timing TBC.

Lalah-Simone Springer will be opening for Joshua Idehen. He will be doing an exclusive set, reciting poetry from his unreleased poetry book: Songbook: Collected Works / Joshua Idehen

UK Poetry Slam Champion Tyrone Lewis teams up with Writer and Director Kayla Martell Feldman to bring you PROCESS, a monthly Spoken Word night featuring some of the most exciting acts across the scene.

Off The Chest return for the launch of their inaugural anthology titled Spaces of Significance!

Afrori Books is excited to welcome Lalah-Simone Springer and special guests AFLO. the poet and Be Manzini for an evening of performance from 7pm - 10pm.

Join us for “Pride” on July 7th, featuring the brilliant Lalah-Simone Springer, poet (An Aviary of Common Birds, Broken Sleep Books, 2023), producer, artist and speculative fiction writer. We will be performing three beautiful tracks from Lalah’s recently released album Cyclical Music, rearranged for live gospel choir and band.

Lalah-Simone Springer joins the Book Love Carnival as Author-in-Residence at City Splash Festival.

Eastbury Manor House will play host to an exhibition of new artwork and spoken word made by Dauda Ladejobi and Steve Lawes.

Join Lalah-Simone Springer on the final stop of their ‘Common Birds Tour’ as they debut their poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

Join Lalah-Simone Springer on the fifth stop of their ‘Common Birds Tour’ as they debut their poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

Join Lalah-Simone Springer as they perform at a free poetry workshop hosted by Newham Poetry Group.

Join British poet Lalah-Simone Springer for a beginner-friendly poetry workshop exploring and queering the idea of a 'sonnet'. Usually, sonnets are love poems written to other people. In this class, we'll learn the rules for writing a sonnet, and then find the lesson from our own life story which we can share in our poetry.

Join Lalah - Simone Springer on the fourth stop of their ‘Common Birds Tour’ as they debut their poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

Join Lalah - Simone Springer on the third stop of their ‘Common Birds Tour’ as they debut their poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

Join Lalah - Simone Springer on the second stop of their ‘Common Birds Tour’ as they debut their poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

Join Lalah - Simone Springer on the first stop of their ‘Common Birds Tour’ as they debut their poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

Lalah - Simone Springer will be co-facilitating a nature trail writing session all about natural beauty and immersing yourself into it! Tickets from £10

Join Lalah-Simone Springer at a raffle and poetry night to support writers at risk who are in and from Palestine. Tickets are £12, including entry and a raffle ticket! Donations encouraged

Lalah-Simone Springer is performing at this fundraiser for a 5* play which premiered at VAULT Festival, exploring disability, chronic illness and young carers. Free entry! Donations encouraged

No tickets - please just turn up and enjoy, but we ask that everyone pay a nominal £2 fee which we charge for all events.

Join me here for my next poetry performance, I would love to see you all there!