{"product_id":"girling-eve-esfandiari-denney-and-jack-underwood-in-conversation","title":"GIRLING: Eve Esfandiari-Denney and Jack Underwood in conversation","description":"\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThursday 17th of September \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e6.30 (7pm start) to 8.30 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePlease join us to celebrate the launch of \u003ci\u003eGirling,\u003c\/i\u003e the debut poetry collection from Eve Esfandiari-Denney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e.  For this event Eve will be in conversation with Jack Underwood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGirling\u003c\/i\u003e, Eve Esfandiari-Denney wrestles with the boundaries between living and death, history and the present, and what is fated for us in our DNA, culture and environments. Exploring illness and mortality, the narrator asks the reader, ‘I hope it’s ok to die. I can \/ be something \/ like actualized metaphor.’ She recounts the story of a father left abandoned in a church, and animates lost fragments of Romani Traveller and Iranian heritage. Grief is portrayed with a tongue in cheek yet cosmic register, as the speaker invests in ‘lions’ mane’, attempts to feel ‘super-radiant’, and moves into ‘moon pose’, while we watch electronic deep-sea claws on YouTube, and google \u003ci\u003ewhat to do if your mum died last night\u003c\/i\u003e. Philosophical, funny, pertinent, ecological, global and intimate, this is a debut for the contemporary moment, ending on a note that is gorgeously hopeful, as ‘life’ moves towards the speaker, ‘gloriously close’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEve Esfandiari-Denney’s debut poetry pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eMy Bodies This Morning This Evening\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the White Review Poet’s Prize, Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Award, the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Performed) and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC Radio 4 and \u003ci\u003ePrototypes Annual Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003ci\u003eGirling \u003c\/i\u003eis her first collection. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic. He is author of \u003ci\u003eHappiness \u003c\/i\u003e(Faber 2015) \u003ci\u003eSolo for Mascha Voice \u003c\/i\u003e(Test Centre, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eA Year in the New Life \u003c\/i\u003e(Faber 2021). His debut work of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eNOT EVEN THIS\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Corsair in 2021. He has collaborated widely with composers and artists, and his work has been published internationally and in translation. He is co-presenter and curator of the \u003ci\u003eFaber Poetry Podcast \u003c\/i\u003eand is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burley Fisher Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64023606165881,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/3385\/2310\/files\/EveEsfandiari-Denneyauthorphoto_1.jpg?v=1784641744","url":"https:\/\/burleyfisherbooks.com\/products\/girling-eve-esfandiari-denney-and-jack-underwood-in-conversation","provider":"Burley Fisher Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}