Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney
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Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026 Penny Boxall an Italian village cut off

an Italian village cut off by the army

The ‘ta-dah

How do people and places become neglected and how can we dwell in broken infrastructure projects of the heart

and the haunted in endlessly inventive forms

thought collapsed into sensation

Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney <br> PRE-ORDER <br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026</b> Penny Boxall an Italian village cut offPublished 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