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I’m so grateful to the wonderful Liz Berry for this endorsement of my forthcoming poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ (available to pre-order now using the link in my bio).
Dr Catherine Redford
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Dr Catherine Redford
@C_Redford_
Poet | Researcher | Co-editor Dust Poetry. Magma Selected Poet. Forward-nominated collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ out now (DM for signed copy).
- I’m very pleased and proud to announce that St Hilda’s College, Oxford @hilda_beastoxf has named a lectureship in Medieval Literatures in honour of my late wife, Dr Rebecca Marsland st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/our-st…
- When my wife was dying she made me promise to keep writing and to try to get my poetry out there; today I start a short course with @brookespoetry on working towards getting published. I feel a bit apprehensive, but also excited. I think Rebecca would be pleased.
- One of my poems has been chosen to be displayed on buses in Brighton & Hove as part of their Poems on the Buses scheme! If anyone lives in that part of the world and spots my poem out in the wild, I’d be very grateful if you could take a picture for me 🚌
- The highlight of 2023 for me was getting to marry this wonderful man. I remember New Year’s Eve five years ago so clearly; my wife was very close to the end (she passed away two weeks later) and I was utterly terrified of having to live life without her. 🧵
- Replying to @DrSueMossMy wife and I would have been married for ten years last week (she died of cancer in January 2019). Our wedding day was so full of love and hope and happiness - it was perfect.
- I said yes! Most people would be lucky to find love like this once in their lives, but I’ve found it twice and I’m extraordinarily grateful for that. I couldn’t be happier.
- I’m finally reading the book my wife gave me 3 weeks before she died. I’ve been afraid to read it for the past 3.5 years, because once it’s been read, that’s it: there’ll be no more books from her. But I’m enjoying it - it feels like a hug from her from across the years/divide.
- My wife, Rebecca, would have been 37 today. This is her a few months before she died, with our newborn son.
- Extremely honoured to have one of my poems included in Issue 25 of @LighthouseJrnl - it’s a terrific issue, not least because it champions some excellent working-class writing. My thanks to @Julwe1 for giving my work a home.
- My wife, Rebecca, would have been 38 today. I find her birthdays really hard. I’m very grateful today for the love of my family and friends.
- My little boy started school today. It was never my intention to be a stay-at-home mum, but after my wife died while I was on maternity leave I couldn’t cope with going back to my career in academia ; I needed to be with my son. I’m feeling a bit lost without him now!
