The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Wayne Price There’s a lot the fool

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

bleeding world in which 'all flesh is grass' and language is matter

“Occasion: / last Friday

In a poem about Li Po

Jean Taylor draws on family history and her childhood in Scotland and Nigeria to explore the legacy of the mining industry and the issues of inequality and ancestral guilt

The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Wayne Price There’s a lot the foolShortlisted 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