Claire Silverman - February
Claire Silverman is an American poet, currently based in Scotland as she pursues her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, under the direction of Karen Solie (The Caiplie Caves, Pigeon). She earned her BA in English with honours from the University of Richmond, where she also concentrated in creative writing and film studies.
Her poetry has been published in Seedlings literary and art magazine, The Messenger Literary and Arts Magazine, and According to the Coroner. She is the writer and director of two short films: The Little Ships (2022) (available on Vimeo), and Reflections (2023) (available on YouTube).
Find more of her writing as “crystal claire” on Substack.
We are selling a limited edition (of 20) of February, Claire’s poem from Seedlings Spring. It is a 27×21.2cm letterpress print of the poem, and will be printed on Hahnemühle laid paper stock at London Centre for Book Arts by Will J. Wood.
The photo above is a digital preview as we will produce the prints to order then update the photo in due course.
Claire says, “The February in the poem was in 2023. I was living in Virginia and everyday would walk by these daffodils in flower beds, watching them sprout then bloom. What was supposed to be a poem about flowers became a poem about healing and noticing. It was coming up on two years since I had to undergo an emergency surgery, and as the poem formed in my mind, I noticed my scars were almost gone.
“I learnt that growth was as much things disappearing, not just appearing.
“There was a big patch of daffodils back home that is now gone—so it only exists in the poem now. I got my knowledge and love of plants from my grandma, a huge plant person. We have home videos of baby me and my sister running around our garden, and I remember her little greenhouse, with the gardening gloves, the foam kneepad. It wasn’t until I went to college that I fully appreciated those times.
“Perhaps it was that surgery when my childhood ended, age 19. A panic-ridden experience, without my parents, just my amazing roommate who drove me to ER.
“It was the closest material for me and the sharpest, first encounter with real panic and responsibility that reflects back to me childhood’s lack of responsibility, how carefree it was.
“I’ve seen my poems in print before but receiving my copy of Seedlings was the first time I’d seen it handprinted. I’m an old-timey person and love nineteenth century books, art and physical objects. Seeing the daffodils growing again in the craft of a letterpress print really brings them back to life.”
Website: https://clairesilverman.substack.com/
Instagram: @claire.silverman/
Claire Silverman is an American poet, currently based in Scotland as she pursues her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, under the direction of Karen Solie (The Caiplie Caves, Pigeon). She earned her BA in English with honours from the University of Richmond, where she also concentrated in creative writing and film studies.
Her poetry has been published in Seedlings literary and art magazine, The Messenger Literary and Arts Magazine, and According to the Coroner. She is the writer and director of two short films: The Little Ships (2022) (available on Vimeo), and Reflections (2023) (available on YouTube).
Find more of her writing as “crystal claire” on Substack.
We are selling a limited edition (of 20) of February, Claire’s poem from Seedlings Spring. It is a 27×21.2cm letterpress print of the poem, and will be printed on Hahnemühle laid paper stock at London Centre for Book Arts by Will J. Wood.
The photo above is a digital preview as we will produce the prints to order then update the photo in due course.
Claire says, “The February in the poem was in 2023. I was living in Virginia and everyday would walk by these daffodils in flower beds, watching them sprout then bloom. What was supposed to be a poem about flowers became a poem about healing and noticing. It was coming up on two years since I had to undergo an emergency surgery, and as the poem formed in my mind, I noticed my scars were almost gone.
“I learnt that growth was as much things disappearing, not just appearing.
“There was a big patch of daffodils back home that is now gone—so it only exists in the poem now. I got my knowledge and love of plants from my grandma, a huge plant person. We have home videos of baby me and my sister running around our garden, and I remember her little greenhouse, with the gardening gloves, the foam kneepad. It wasn’t until I went to college that I fully appreciated those times.
“Perhaps it was that surgery when my childhood ended, age 19. A panic-ridden experience, without my parents, just my amazing roommate who drove me to ER.
“It was the closest material for me and the sharpest, first encounter with real panic and responsibility that reflects back to me childhood’s lack of responsibility, how carefree it was.
“I’ve seen my poems in print before but receiving my copy of Seedlings was the first time I’d seen it handprinted. I’m an old-timey person and love nineteenth century books, art and physical objects. Seeing the daffodils growing again in the craft of a letterpress print really brings them back to life.”
Website: https://clairesilverman.substack.com/
Instagram: @claire.silverman/
Claire Silverman is an American poet, currently based in Scotland as she pursues her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, under the direction of Karen Solie (The Caiplie Caves, Pigeon). She earned her BA in English with honours from the University of Richmond, where she also concentrated in creative writing and film studies.
Her poetry has been published in Seedlings literary and art magazine, The Messenger Literary and Arts Magazine, and According to the Coroner. She is the writer and director of two short films: The Little Ships (2022) (available on Vimeo), and Reflections (2023) (available on YouTube).
Find more of her writing as “crystal claire” on Substack.
We are selling a limited edition (of 20) of February, Claire’s poem from Seedlings Spring. It is a 27×21.2cm letterpress print of the poem, and will be printed on Hahnemühle laid paper stock at London Centre for Book Arts by Will J. Wood.
The photo above is a digital preview as we will produce the prints to order then update the photo in due course.
Claire says, “The February in the poem was in 2023. I was living in Virginia and everyday would walk by these daffodils in flower beds, watching them sprout then bloom. What was supposed to be a poem about flowers became a poem about healing and noticing. It was coming up on two years since I had to undergo an emergency surgery, and as the poem formed in my mind, I noticed my scars were almost gone.
“I learnt that growth was as much things disappearing, not just appearing.
“There was a big patch of daffodils back home that is now gone—so it only exists in the poem now. I got my knowledge and love of plants from my grandma, a huge plant person. We have home videos of baby me and my sister running around our garden, and I remember her little greenhouse, with the gardening gloves, the foam kneepad. It wasn’t until I went to college that I fully appreciated those times.
“Perhaps it was that surgery when my childhood ended, age 19. A panic-ridden experience, without my parents, just my amazing roommate who drove me to ER.
“It was the closest material for me and the sharpest, first encounter with real panic and responsibility that reflects back to me childhood’s lack of responsibility, how carefree it was.
“I’ve seen my poems in print before but receiving my copy of Seedlings was the first time I’d seen it handprinted. I’m an old-timey person and love nineteenth century books, art and physical objects. Seeing the daffodils growing again in the craft of a letterpress print really brings them back to life.”
Website: https://clairesilverman.substack.com/
Instagram: @claire.silverman/