Dr Catherine Redford
@catherineredford.bsky.social
Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Room 204 writer. Words in Magma, Under the Radar, Propel, The Storms, New Welsh Reader, Lighthouse, Atrium, Ink Sweat & Tears, etc.
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📣 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT📣 We are delighted to announce the acquisition of THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME by @catherineredford.bsky.social, a heart-wrenching debut about young widowhood
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
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Writing to the world today. We’re so proud of the work in this issue! 🧡✨🌱
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
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November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Writing to the world today. We’re so proud of the work in this issue! 🧡✨🌱
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We are still open for submissions for our two newest anthologies - Poems for Protest & The Cat Poetry Book
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Submissions
We are open for submissions for… Poems for Protest. The Cat Poetry Book. The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize Poems for Protest We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology R…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We are still open for submissions for our two newest anthologies - Poems for Protest & The Cat Poetry Book
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/
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I’m delighted to be included- just finished my first read through (will return often I expect) it’s a thing of beauty! The poems talk to each other in surprising and deep connections and the result is a real temperature-check of our time. Congratulations 🙌🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I’m delighted to be included- just finished my first read through (will return often I expect) it’s a thing of beauty! The poems talk to each other in surprising and deep connections and the result is a real temperature-check of our time. Congratulations 🙌🏻
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Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
I’m so excited to see this issue go live tomorrow! We have some amazing poems to share with you 💛
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’m so excited to see this issue go live tomorrow! We have some amazing poems to share with you 💛
I’m very much looking forward to seeing @fionasampson.bsky.social speak at The Hive this evening. Fiona will be discussing two of her biographies: the fabulous ‘In Search of Mary Shelley’ and her new biography of George Sand. Tickets are free, but need to be pre-booked.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I’m very much looking forward to seeing @fionasampson.bsky.social speak at The Hive this evening. Fiona will be discussing two of her biographies: the fabulous ‘In Search of Mary Shelley’ and her new biography of George Sand. Tickets are free, but need to be pre-booked.
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✨COVER REVEAL✨ Here it is, the cover for Dear World, Issue 15! Featuring this stunning work by printmaker, Molly Lemon
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds” feels so apt for this issue and we can’t wait to share its 30 new poems with you on Saturday! 🧡✨🌱
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds” feels so apt for this issue and we can’t wait to share its 30 new poems with you on Saturday! 🧡✨🌱
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
✨COVER REVEAL✨ Here it is, the cover for Dear World, Issue 15! Featuring this stunning work by printmaker, Molly Lemon
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds” feels so apt for this issue and we can’t wait to share its 30 new poems with you on Saturday! 🧡✨🌱
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds” feels so apt for this issue and we can’t wait to share its 30 new poems with you on Saturday! 🧡✨🌱
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I’m really excited to read this 🙂
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’m really excited to read this 🙂
Some of my favourites from the Bodleian’s ‘Treasured’ exhibition: Mary Shelley portrait and manuscript; Jane Austen manuscript; and a burnt scroll from Herculaneum.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Some of my favourites from the Bodleian’s ‘Treasured’ exhibition: Mary Shelley portrait and manuscript; Jane Austen manuscript; and a burnt scroll from Herculaneum.
I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
📣 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT📣 We are delighted to announce the acquisition of THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME by @catherineredford.bsky.social, a heart-wrenching debut about young widowhood
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
Reposted by Dr Catherine Redford
Pre order a copy and read three poems from the collection below!
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The Way the Water Held Me - The Emma Press
A moving debut poetry collection exploring love, loss, and the resilience of the human heart.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Pre order a copy and read three poems from the collection below!
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“Across poems of heartbreak and honesty, memory and mourning – and through unlikely companionship with a widowed Mary Shelley – Catherine Redford’s debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what it is to be human, to have lost and to find ways to continue to love.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“Across poems of heartbreak and honesty, memory and mourning – and through unlikely companionship with a widowed Mary Shelley – Catherine Redford’s debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what it is to be human, to have lost and to find ways to continue to love.”
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SOME NEWS: Huge congratulations to our brilliant Co-Editor @catherineredford.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ will be published in March by @theemmapress.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
SOME NEWS: Huge congratulations to our brilliant Co-Editor @catherineredford.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ will be published in March by @theemmapress.bsky.social
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The Emma Press has acquired a ’heart-wrenching’ debut poetry collection about young widowhood by Catherine Redford, entitled The Way the Water Held Me, scheduled for March 2026 👇 #BookSky
The Emma Press signs debut poetry collection about young widowhood
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November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Emma Press has acquired a ’heart-wrenching’ debut poetry collection about young widowhood by Catherine Redford, entitled The Way the Water Held Me, scheduled for March 2026 👇 #BookSky
What I’ve been reading over the past few days:
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What I’ve been reading over the past few days:
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
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This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
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Delighted by my first Pushcart nomination from Dust Poetry magazine. Sincere thanks to @dustpoetry.bsky.social editors @catherineredford.bsky.social and @tarawheeler.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Delighted by my first Pushcart nomination from Dust Poetry magazine. Sincere thanks to @dustpoetry.bsky.social editors @catherineredford.bsky.social and @tarawheeler.bsky.social
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I loved ‘What We Can Know’, the new novel from Ian McEwan. It’s a work of speculative fiction rooted in the concerns of our own age and manages to be so many different stories all at once. Academic meditations run parallel with tales of love and lust, brutal crime intertwined
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I loved ‘What We Can Know’, the new novel from Ian McEwan. It’s a work of speculative fiction rooted in the concerns of our own age and manages to be so many different stories all at once. Academic meditations run parallel with tales of love and lust, brutal crime intertwined
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Issue 15 ‘Dear World’ will go live on 22.11.25 ✨
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Issue 15 ‘Dear World’ will go live on 22.11.25 ✨
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
Remind me never to submit a poem with weird formatting to the National Poetry Competition ever again 🙃
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Remind me never to submit a poem with weird formatting to the National Poetry Competition ever again 🙃
We didn’t have poetry books in the house when I was growing up, but as a child I used to get the same battered copy of The New Dragon Book of Verse out of the library again and again. There were so many poems in there that I loved,
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We didn’t have poetry books in the house when I was growing up, but as a child I used to get the same battered copy of The New Dragon Book of Verse out of the library again and again. There were so many poems in there that I loved,
I’m a big fan of the art and writing of the Bloomsbury Group, but I’ve never had the chance to visit Charleston. This book was a brilliant introduction to the house and its gardens, particularly as many of the notes are written by the late Quentin Bell,
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I’m a big fan of the art and writing of the Bloomsbury Group, but I’ve never had the chance to visit Charleston. This book was a brilliant introduction to the house and its gardens, particularly as many of the notes are written by the late Quentin Bell,