I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025 women Sophia Knight

Sophia Knight

which possibly starts as therapy

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

uses it for adventure and exploration

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

I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal<br><b>Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025</b> women Sophia KnightPublished 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,