I Could Not Ask You To by Helena Fornells Nadal
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Winter 2025 Aoife Lyall commercialism

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‘How I Abandoned My Body To His Keeping’: is the story of a woman embroiled in a relationship marked by coercion and violence

it is a boundless exploration of otherness and home

It is a poetry of landscape and water

chance plays a part in finding or losing people and places that are loved: a change in the weather

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