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1. 1. www.woodlandsfarm.co.uk

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   Published on: 7/23/2008   Last Visited: 7/23/2008

   Poetry by Clare Best
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   About Clare Best
   
   Clare's poems are widely published in journals and magazines (Smiths Knoll, Resurgence, The Frogmore Papers, The New Writer, Living Earth) and have been broadcast on radio.Clare holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex.She is an experienced creative writing teacher and facilitator, and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University.She was leader of Tools for Writing workshops for life prisoners, HMP Shepton Mallet Outside In project, 2004, and has been Arts Council funded Writer in Residence at Woodlands Organic Farm, Lincolnshire since 2005.
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   In 2005, Clare Best became Writer in Residence at Woodlands - this has been the first ever residency of its kind established on a farm.
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   As well as running these projects, Clare wrote poems directly inspired by Woodlands.These poems have been distributed, monthly, in the farm's organic fruit and vegetable boxes and can also be read here.The poems, now numbering around forty, will be collected and published in book form.Keep an eye out on this website for news of the collection.Poems will also be placed on story boards at various points around the farm and on the Farm Trail, beginning in spring 2008.
   
   During the first year of the residency, Clare worked with local children from Kirton Primary School and Middlecott School and throughout 2005 several hundred children enjoyed visits to Woodlands with follow-up poetry workshops.As well as teaching the children about organic farming and healthy eating, these sessions inspired them to write some striking poems.You can read a selection of these in the Children's Involvement section of this website.
   
   In the second year of the residency, groups of adult writers came to Woodlands on Sundays for Clare's themed writing workshops.

2. 2. www.huntingdontowncentrepartnership.co.uk

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   Published on: 6/2/2008   Last Visited: 8/29/2008

   Huntingdon Farmers' Market is publishing a poem written in its honour by Poet in Residence, Clare Best.
   
   Clare was resident at the farmers' market last week, giving away poems with purchases of organic vegetables and getting customers to think about creating their own poems - taking inspiration from the locally-produced, seasonal food sold by the people who produce it.
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   We are going to display the poem Clare wrote for us at the market and also include it on our webpages.We are also inviting customers to submit their own poems."
   
   Clare Best is a poet on an Arts Council funded writing residency with Woodlands Organic Farm, one of the regular farmers' market traders.Her poems are published in journals and magazines and she is a tutor on the creative writing programme at the University of Kent.
   
   The poem she wrote for Huntingdon Farmers' Market is below.
   
   The Farmers' Market runs from 8am to 2pm every other Friday in Huntingdon Market Square.
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   Clare Best, Woodlands Organic Farm, 2005

3. 3. Poems

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   Published on: 1/28/2008   Last Visited: 1/28/2008

   Arts Council England has granted £5,000 to Woodlands Organic Farm at Kirton, near Boston, Lincolnshire, to allow writer and poet Clare Best, from Sussex, to spend time as Writer in Residence at Andrew Dennis' farm.Here, Clare introduces the residency.
   
   My writing residency at Woodlands runs throughout 2005.
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   Clare Best, Woodlands, 2005
   
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   The first scarecrows must have been real people - what an extraordinary job!
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   A plaque on the side of a farm building by Whitehouse Farm tells of the death in 1953 of a young Canadian airman.The plaque was apparently unveiled by the Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group on the 50th anniversary of the young man's death.
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   Bloodsworth field, June
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   Woodlands Farm's writer in residence, Clare Best, organised poetry competitions at two local schools: Kirton Primary School and Middlecott School Kirton.