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Clare Best

is the author of a prose memoir The Missing List (Linen Press, 2018) and seven volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is a new pamphlet, End of Season, published with Coast to Coast to Coast in 2021. Clare has often worked with visual artists and last year held a Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she collaborated on operas and other vocal projects. She lives on the edge of Tunstall Forest, near the Suffolk coast. Clare Best’s website is here.

    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
    a black and white portrait of Clare, she is turned from the camera, scar tissue is visible were her breasts were

    Collaboration and Transformation I

    Clare Best on her experiences of collaborative artistic work



    Photo by Laura Stevens
    Collage style illustration off a man made up oaf various images including flowers and butterflies, the predominant colour is red, and he is on a black background which has a number of butterflies and a Passion flower

    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)
    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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