The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Elisabeth Sennit Clough A trailblazer in intersectional feminism

A trailblazer in intersectional feminism

therefore her inferior ways could easily let the Devil into the house

Boris Johnsons world-beating wet dreams

’     – Alexey Golubev

The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Elisabeth Sennit Clough A trailblazer in intersectional feminismShortlisted 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