Escape Room

'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 'Fresh, natural and surprising twists and turns, sudden illuminations that feel like truth telling' - Pascal Petit Escape Room is the startling and long-awaited debut collection from Bryony Littlefair, following the success of her award-winning pamphlet Giraffe. Littlefair combines clear-eyed observation with wry, surreal humour. Where the mundanities of everyday life, work, therapy, graduation and lapsed Christianity are transformed into the comedic and absurd, with warmth, humanity and a deadpan delivery.

Bryony Littlefair is a poet, community centre worker and workshop facilitator living in London. Her pamphlet Giraffe won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize in 2017 and is out now with Seren Books. 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.