I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025 women of living itself

of living itself

uses it for adventure and exploration

struggling to keep your head above water that will either save or destroy you with its next wave

with the steely waters of the Mersey

Gatwood asks: How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence

I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal<br><b>Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025</b> women of living itselfPublished 29th September 2025. Helena Fornells Nadal's I COULD NOT ASK YOU TO harnesses the self and its shadow to convey, or rather define, a completely unique way of seeing. Marked by a chatty causality that frequently leads to a sudden assertion inarguable, deadpan statements these are exploratory, improvisatory, elegiac poems, at once decisive and tentative, surgically precise and strategically unclear. Cows. They stand there, we are reassured,