I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025 women in which the poet tries

in which the poet tries all the doors and windows to find her

with the steely waters of the Mersey

Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and in the decades since he has built a solid reputation as a translator of Scandinavian poets

uses it for adventure and exploration

" - Peter Gizzi

I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal<br><b>Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025</b> women in which the poet triesPublished 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,