The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Elisabeth Sennit Clough Boris Johnsons world-beating wet dreams

Boris Johnsons world-beating wet dreams

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The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford Elisabeth Sennit Clough Boris Johnsons world-beating wet dreamsShortlisted 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