Description
A brilliant collection that explores the frailties, perils and joys of love in all its guises. Clare Best's carefully observed, memorable and formally daring poems deal with a wide range of themes, including the intimacy of domestic situations, the rights of women in our society, and the pressing need to respect and learn from the natural world.
About the Author
Clare Best's first full poetry collection, Excisions (Waterloo 2011), was a finalist for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, 2012. Her second, Each Other (Waterloo 2019), was described in London Grip as 'brimming with ideas, thinking, experiments with form, and intrigue'. Other poetry publications include Treasure Ground, Breastless, CELL and End of Season. Clare has held residenciesatWoodlandsOrganicFarminLincolnshire, the University of Brighton and HMP Shepton Mallet. She thrives on collaborating with visual artists and with musicians and composers. Springlines, a project with the painter Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis, explores hidden and mysterious bodies of water across the South of England. Clare has co-created three chamber operas and a song cycle, and was a Fellow at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2021. Her prose memoir The Missing List (Linen Press 2018) - written during the last illness of the father who abused her as a child - was a finalist in the Mslexia Memoir Competition 2015.Andrew O'Hagan wrote of this work, 'a tapestry of time - brightly coloured, beautifully orchestrated, emotionally pure.' The Missing List was cited by Dr Irene Gammel of Ryerson University,Toronto, as 'an important, essential text in the context of the #MeToo movement.' Clare lives near the Suffolk coast. clarebest.co.uk
Reviews
Beyond the Gate is rooted in a woman's right to walk through streets and forests, through her own story. Clare Best plays compelling, original games with form. Her voice is fired by precision and observation, seared with a questioning wit. - Robert Hamberger;Shifting between the intimacy of the domestic space and a deep connection with the natural world, Best shows us beauty laced with danger, darkness, flashes of fear.This exploration of love and loss considers how we hold and carry our memories, how far ahead we dare to look. - Rebecca Goss;Clare Best writes with scruple and clarity, listening always for the unsaid and the unsayable, watching for the passage of flame into darkness. - Michael Hulse
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208500
Author Clare Best
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
About the Author
Clare Best's first full poetry collection, Excisions (Waterloo 2011), was a finalist for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, 2012. Her second, Each Other (Waterloo 2019), was described in London Grip as 'brimming with ideas, thinking, experiments with form, and intrigue'. Other poetry publications include Treasure Ground, Breastless, CELL and End of Season. Clare has held residenciesatWoodlandsOrganicFarminLincolnshire, the University of Brighton and HMP Shepton Mallet. She thrives on collaborating with visual artists and with musicians and composers. Springlines, a project with the painter Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis, explores hidden and mysterious bodies of water across the South of England. Clare has co-created three chamber operas and a song cycle, and was a Fellow at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2021. Her prose memoir The Missing List (Linen Press 2018) - written during the last illness of the father who abused her as a child - was a finalist in the Mslexia Memoir Competition 2015.Andrew O'Hagan wrote of this work, 'a tapestry of time - brightly coloured, beautifully orchestrated, emotionally pure.' The Missing List was cited by Dr Irene Gammel of Ryerson University,Toronto, as 'an important, essential text in the context of the #MeToo movement.' Clare lives near the Suffolk coast. clarebest.co.uk
Reviews
Beyond the Gate is rooted in a woman's right to walk through streets and forests, through her own story. Clare Best plays compelling, original games with form. Her voice is fired by precision and observation, seared with a questioning wit. - Robert Hamberger;Shifting between the intimacy of the domestic space and a deep connection with the natural world, Best shows us beauty laced with danger, darkness, flashes of fear.This exploration of love and loss considers how we hold and carry our memories, how far ahead we dare to look. - Rebecca Goss;Clare Best writes with scruple and clarity, listening always for the unsaid and the unsayable, watching for the passage of flame into darkness. - Michael Hulse
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208500
Author Clare Best
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
