Clare Best
Clare Best is a British poet, author and university lecturer who was both shortlisted for the 2012 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for "Excisions" and a finalist for the 2014 Mslexia Memoir Competition for "The Missing List".
Also recorded as Clare Phyllis Best
Clare Best
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- 1955
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- poet
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Clare Best is a British poet, author and university lecturer who was both shortlisted for the 2012 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for "Excisions" and a finalist for the 2014 Mslexia Memoir Competition for "The Missing List".
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• Seamus Heaney Centre Prize (2012) • Mslexia Memoir Competition (2014)
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