Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney
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Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026 Kei Miller worried and tenacious

worried and tenacious

Shockingly funny

including lesser-known historical poets

Polley has been guided more and more by old-fashioned lyric inspiration of the sort all too rare in contemporary English poetry

Partly inspired by the poet’s love of Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons

Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney <br> PRE-ORDER <br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026</b> Kei Miller worried and tenaciousPublished 10 September 2026 In Girling, her open hearted debut collection, Eve Esfandiary Denney wrestles with the boundaries between living and death, history and the present, and how these are preordained for us in the fabric of our DNA and in our geographical or cultural environments. Through a personal relationship with illness and a closeness to death, the author asks the reader, 'I hope it's ok to die. I can be something like actualized