The Way the Water Held Me
Published on 19. March 2026
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Paperback/Softback
978-1-915628-54-1 (ISBN)
Description
While newly married, with the couple expecting their first child, Catherine Redford's wife was tragically diagnosed with a terminal illness. The Way the Water Held Me is a mesmeric plunge into the caring, grief, loss and love experienced by a young widow.
Across poems of heartbreak and honesty, memory and mourning - and through unlikely companionship with a widowed Mary Shelley - Catherine Redford's debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what it is to be human, to have lost and to find ways to continue to love.
Across poems of heartbreak and honesty, memory and mourning - and through unlikely companionship with a widowed Mary Shelley - Catherine Redford's debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what it is to be human, to have lost and to find ways to continue to love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Winnersh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
96 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915628-54-1 (9781915628541)
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Catherine Redford started writing poetry after being widowed at the age of 35. Her writing has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including Magma (as Selected Poet), Under the Radar, Propel and Ink Sweat & Tears. She is an editor at Dust Poetry, a Writing West Midlands Room 204 writer, and a Nine Arches Press Dynamo Poet. Her poetry explores themes of bereavement, infertility, pregnancy loss, and motherhood. She has also published widely on Romantic and Victorian literature, and has previously taught at the University of Oxford. She lives in Worcester with her husband and young son.The Way the Water Held Me is her debut collection.