Clare Best
![Painting in bright colours showing a copse of trees.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Beyond-the-Gate-by-Clare-Best-320x225.jpg)
The forest’s edge
Charlotte Gann reviews Beyond the Gate by Clare Best (Worple Press, 2023)
![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](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/5TheApothecary-320x225.jpg)
Collaboration and Transformation II
Clare Best on collaborating with composers and musicians, translators and book designers
Photo credit: Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Clare-Best-320x225.jpg)
Collaboration and Transformation I
Clare Best on her experiences of collaborative artistic work
Photo by Laura Stevens
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](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Kim-Moore-All-the-Men-I-Never-Married-320x225.jpg)
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](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/time-front-page-320x225.jpg)
Today I see eternity everywhere
Clare Best reviews Time by Etel Adnan, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books, New York, 2019)
![beyond the gate](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/beyond-the-gate-320x225.jpg)
beyond the gate
by Clare Best — scots pine and resin-scented air / out here / giant oak left of the path / we are walking // sycamore in sun in shade / holly crowding ragged elder // sweet chestnut spruce fir douglas fir