Escape Room
$28.46
- Paperback
63 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2022
Summary
Escape Room: Poems of Freedom, Fallibility, and Suburban Surrealism
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 fallibili…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781726686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178172668X |
| Author: | Bryony Littlefair |
| Publisher: | Poetry Wales Press |
| Imprint: | Seren |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 63 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
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‘Through the use of deadpan humour, lightning wit and a commitment to poking fun at pomposity, Bryony Littlefair’s poems show us what the world is really like. Her similes are compellingly outrageous and her metaphors are gloriously bizarre - these poems let us see life and our lives as the ridiculous strange beautiful creatures they are’. –Kim Moore
About The Author
Bryony Littlefair
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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