The Way the Water Held Me

Author: Catherine Redford

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Published on 19 March 2026 by The Emma Press in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Poetry Collections' series.

Paperback
128 x 198 x 8mm | 96g

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.