Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney
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Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026 Arabic October refuses both numbness and

October refuses both numbness and spectacle

and she never tips over into sentimentality

love and loss of love

with whose work Jacek Gutorow has a deep and sustained engagement

in Anderson’s Unsubdued Singing trilogy

Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney <br> PRE-ORDER <br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026</b> Arabic October refuses both numbness andPublished 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