
Escape Room
by Bryony Littlefair
Title:
Escape Room
Author:
Bryony Littlefair
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
63 pages
Publisher:
Poetry Wales Press
ISBN-13:
9781781726686
EAN:
9781781726686
Publication Date:
06/10/2022
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
234
Dimensions (mm):
137 x 217 x 13
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.










