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Clare Best
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reading, looking, listening carefully; paying attention; writing

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also @cbestphd.bsky.social posting bits and pieces around my doctoral research

#poetry #memoir #lifewriting #teachingwriting #CSA #OUPGR #opera #libretto #materialculture
July 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Gorgeous miniature binding by Gabrielle Fox of my poem ‘The bookbinder’ - what a gift!
#finebookbinding #miniaturebooks
May 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
buzz buzz 💚
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
little brushes of larch 💚
March 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Yesterday made a ⚡️ trip to Lewes to hear Neil Gower talk for LewesLitSoc about a life’s work with graphic art, books, maps, + his own writing.

So moving to see Neil’s art for ‘The Missing List’ among the images projected. I love what he created & I’m so happy to have his painting on my study wall.
February 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My review of Robert Hamberger’s latest collection – for The Friday Poem

open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
February 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
February 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
this is my mother’s cloth tape measure, and the embroidered felt case (complete with tiny button and button loop!) that she made as a schoolgirl in the mid-1930s… a wonderful small reminder of an age of handmade detail in everyday objects – bringing so much pleasure still 😌
February 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
15 years since HappenStance published ‘Treasure Ground’ - my first poetry pamphlet.

On 11 Dec it’ll be 18 years since my risk-reducing bilateral mastectomies, wh inspired ‘Excisions’ (Waterloo Press 2011) & ‘Breastless’ (Pighog 2011).

Gratitude: a powerful emotion. I declare it here, today. 🙏🏻
December 4, 2024 at 8:04 PM
#reading this week 🙏🏻📚
November 19, 2024 at 9:30 PM
starry seedheads of Alexanders / Wild celery / Black lovage / Megweed / Hell root / Horse parsley 💚
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
hello blue sky - here’s a mackerel sky with silver birch #tunstallforest
November 15, 2024 at 5:34 AM