SPINE POETRY

WE LOOK TO DISCOVER VERSES THAT MOVE US INSIDE BOOKS … BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF TAKE A LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE, TOO?

What do you see when you cast your eyes over your bookcase? Some old favourites, no doubt, or some still waiting to be read. Annette Dauphin Simon suggests a new way of looking at your shelves: spine poetry. It’s a game she and her colleagues devised working in a Florida bookshop one day. In a packed shop, with a busy mix of all kinds of books, they began reading the titles in “their random arrangements.” She became hooked, devising and recording these ‘found verses’, now brought together in her book Spine Poems. Sometimes the results are funny, sometimes incredibly poignant, but - as this selection shows - they always make you think, just like ‘real’ poetry does. That ‘real’ is in quotes because ‘found poetry’ is its own genre of…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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