The Way the Water Held Me Lorcán Black run or even fly

run or even fly

WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD Island mountain glacier by acclaimed poet Anne Vegter is tumultuous

disappears without warning

language) as if searching desperately for a way out

Karthika Nair’s epic poem ‘Until the Lions’ is conceived as an echo of its great Sanskrit forerunner

The Way the Water Held Me Lorcán Black run or even flyWhile 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