What does Clare Best say?
For my seventh birthday my mum gave me The Golden Treasury of Poetry, selected and with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer ...
Clare Best
Yielding to water
Clare Best reviews The Water People / Gens de l’eau by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker (Poetry Translation Centre, 2022)
Collaboration and Transformation II
Clare Best on collaborating with composers and musicians, translators and book designers
Photo credit: Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Collaboration and Transformation I
Clare Best on her experiences of collaborative artistic work
Photo by Laura Stevens
This is the naming of trees / this is a series of flames / this is watching you all disappear
Clare Best reviews All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore (Seren, 2021)
Today I see eternity everywhere
Clare Best reviews Time by Etel Adnan, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books, New York, 2019)