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Clare Best

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Clare Best’s first poetry collection, Excisions (Waterloo Press, 2011) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award. She has three full collections in print – the latest of which is Beyond the Gate (Worple Press, 2023) – as well as a groundbreaking prose memoir The Missing List (Linen Press, 2018).

Clare regularly collaborates with visual artists and composers.