The Way the Water Held Me Leon Priestnall

The Way the Water Held Me Leon PriestnallWhile newly married, with the couple expecting their first child, Catherine Redfords 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 Redfords debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what

and ideas of the control society

exhausting

Moving between history

writing a diary and intricately-crafted poems of his own in conversational response to the poems he selected from the Poetry Library collections

Michael Cronin

Margiad Evans (1909-1958) was born in Uxbridge

where he beds down in a metro station

a supple intelligence: a sprightly

Birds call and call

Set in Cardiganshire in the 1750s at the beautiful mansion near Aberystwyth

On the bulldozer’s teeth

What happens to names once the person who wore them dies