Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney
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Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026 Arabic Sumana Roy was simultaneously writing

Sumana Roy was simultaneously writing poems to imagine the opposite: How might it feel for plants to live social lives as humans

and she never tips over into sentimentality

Fornoff finds a kind of consolation in community

with whose work Jacek Gutorow has a deep and sustained engagement

Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney <br> PRE-ORDER <br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026</b> Arabic Sumana Roy was simultaneously writingPublished 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