I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025 Aoife Lyall selfhood and the imagination meet

selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult

candid and knowing

commercialism

and has been set to music

while reminding us of the greater inevitability that we are all

I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal<br><b>Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025</b> Aoife Lyall selfhood and the imagination meetPublished 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,