ice remembers water

What if the parts of you that disappeared were never really lost?

ice remembers water is a collection of poems and poetic parables about the ways we learn to disappear in order to survive, and the journey of remembering who we were before the world told us who to be.

Moving through four movements - freezing, burning, remembering and being - Marnie Dredge explores identity, belonging, emotional pain, resilience, transformation and the quiet return to self.

These are poems for the days you felt too much, the nights you felt nothing, and the moments when something inside you refused to break.

Through ice and water, fire and breath, the natural world becomes a language for the inner one. Freezing becomes adaptation. Fire burns through what no longer belongs. Water remembers how to move. And beneath the stories, expectations and protective layers we have gathered along the way, something remains.

Whole.

Alive.

Still there.

Accessible, lyrical and deeply reflective, ice remembers water is for readers who have ever lost themselves in loving, surviving, belonging or becoming what others needed them to be. It is for those finding their voice again, for those navigating a difficult season, and for anyone drawn to poetry that opens a different way of seeing.

This is not a collection about becoming someone new.

It is about remembering what was there all along.