Name: The Way the Water Held Me: Talk and Reading with Catherine Redford
Start: 2026-05-27T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-27T20:00:00+01:00
Location: 20 Coney St

The Way the Water Held Me: Talk and Reading with Catherine Redford

Join Forward-nominated poet Catherine Redford as she reads from her debut poetry collection, The Way the Water Held Me.
About this Event

Join Forward-nominated poet Catherine Redford for a talk and reading from her debut poetry collection, The Way the Water Held Me.

A mesmeric plunge into the caring, grief, loss, and love experienced by a young widow, The Way the Water Held Me has been described by Fiona Benson as 'a gorgeous wound and wonder of a book' and by Liz Berry as 'a beautiful, heartbreaking book that charts deepest grief and deepest love'.

Catherine Redford’s debut collection, The Way the Water Held Me (The Emma Press), explores the caring, grief, loss, and love experienced by a young widow. A Magma Selected Poet, Catherine’s work has also been published in Under the Radar, Propel, New Welsh Reader, and Lighthouse. She is an editor at Dust Poetry magazine, a Nine Arches Press Dynamo Poet, and a Writing West Midlands Room 204 Writer.

Accessibility

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There is an access call button at the shop entrance. This will alert a member of staff, who will be happy to assist wheelchair users with a ramp and offer support with access or seating.

If you have any specific access needs, please do let us know in advance at [email protected]. For example, we can reserve seating towards the front for those who are hearing impaired, or ensure wheelchair users are comfortably positioned near the exit.