Escape Room by Bryony Littlefair
Escape Room embroiders the misadventures and surrealism of an ingénue’s clear-eyed wonder and cynicism in graduating high school, job interviews, work-life, atheism and character portraits that are far from caricature. This is a collection exploring the possibilities of freedom, goodness, meaning and connection under late capitalism. Can we escape the imperatives of money, gender and human fallibility to freely construct our own identities – should we even try? This complexity is balanced with a resolute joy and humour. Littlefair’s poems are a delectable serving of postmodern irony, a contemporary Betjemanesque indictment on suburban, middle-class life, wryly observed with a razor-sharp wit, executed with warmth, honesty and precision that make this an irresistible and perspicacious collection.
Bryony Littlefair is a poet, community centre worker and workshop facilitator living in London. Her pamphlet ‘Giraffe’ (Seren) won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize in 2017. She was shortlisted for the inaugural Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize in 2018 and 2020 and in 2019 received the Moth Retreat Bursary Award. She is a member of the UniSlam post-emerging cohort for mid-career poets. Her debut collection ‘Escape Room’ (Seren, 2022), is funded by Arts Council England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781726686 |
| ISBN 10 | 178172668X |
| Title | Escape Room |
| Author | Bryony Littlefair |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
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