Way the Water Held Me

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.