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

Sophia Knight

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

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

' From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy

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,