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Clare Best

The words MX Simp on a beige background.

Resisting the shadows

Clare Best reviews MX SIMP by Kate Hendry (Mariscat Press, 2023)

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Curiosities for the curious

Clare Best reviews Wunderkammer by Helen Ivory (MadHat Press, 2023)

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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 ...

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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)

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A man and a woman in period costume from around the 1600s by the look of the wig. They are standing either side of a chemists wooden counter and red smoke billows in the air

Collaboration and Transformation II

Clare Best on collaborating with composers and musicians, translators and book designers

Photo credit: Guildhall School of Music & Drama

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Collaboration and Transformation I

Clare Best on her experiences of collaborative artistic work

Photo by Laura Stevens

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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)

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Book cover of 'Time' by Etel Adnan

Today I see eternity everywhere

Clare Best reviews Time by Etel Adnan, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books, New York, 2019)

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