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
- Occupation
- poet
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• Seamus Heaney Centre Prize (2012) • Mslexia Memoir Competition (2014)
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- 1.Best, Clare. www.happenstancepress.com.
- 2.Clare Best. Little Toller Books.
- 3.Success stories - Mslexia. Mslexia.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Treasure Ground (HappenStance Press, 2010)
- Excisions (Waterloo Press, 2011)
- Breastless (Pighog, 2011)
- Cell (Frogmore Press, 2015)
- Springlines (Little Toller Books, 2017)
- The Missing List — a memoir (Linen Press, 2018)
- Each Other (Waterloo Press, 2019)
- End of Season / Fine di stagione (Frogmore Press, 2022)
- Beyond the Gate (Worple Press, 2023)
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