I am proud to share news of the publication of a lyric essay that I have co-authored with my colleague and friend Patricia Debney (also a survivor of child sexual abuse (CSA), also abused by her father – Patricia is a poet, memoirist, academic and activist). Our essay ‘Twenty-five soundings about child sexual abuse and…
Category: collaboration
Beyond the A12
On Tuesday 10th October we launched my new Worple Press collection Beyond the Gate in the beautiful crypt (or Forum) of the newly refurbished St John’s Waterloo, in London. I love book launches. And because this one had been postponed from July, I’d had extra time to plan, in a very bossy way: notes and…
Two new reviews for ‘End of Season / Fine di stagione’
My thanks and appreciation to Matthew Stewart of Rogue Strands who has written an insightful post here about End of Season / Fine di stagione, focusing on tensions of various kinds running through the work. It’s exciting when a reader / reviewer homes in on something that really is part of the foundations of a…
Happy New Year!
I’m very grateful to the Italian poet Franca Mancinelli for hosting some of the poems from End of Season / Fine di stagione on her beautiful blog Diario di passo. The poems appear in both English and Italian. It was a joy to work with Franca and with John Taylor when they were translating my…
Collaboration and celebration
I recently wrote two pieces on the subject of collaboration for The Friday Poem, an excellent and vibrant poetry venture (started by Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie a little over a year ago) which sends a new poem to subscribers’ inboxes every Friday. The Friday Poem also carries reviews, articles, opinion, all kinds of good…
Clare Best 