The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Wayne Price these poems acknowledge and reckon

these poems acknowledge and reckon with the people and places that haunt us

fulfilling a basic need to live freely

There’s a lot the fool doesn’t know – otherwise they wouldn’t be a fool – but can anyone be trusted to know anything

In a poem about Li Po

The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Wayne Price these poems acknowledge and reckonShortlisted for The Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection 2026 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