April is National Poetry Month. I have never made any book spine poetry before, but, inspired by brilliant posts from Rebecca, Cathy and Naomi, I decided to give it a go! The first book in each stack is the title.
Tell The Machine Goodnight
This must be the place –
The library at night.
Quiet, deep –
An equal stillness.
Let go my hand,
dear girl.
I’m not scared.
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
10:04,
tenth of December
when the girls come out to play,
inventing imaginary worlds.
Out of the doll’s house,
living dolls.
Nineteen minutes
after you’d gone,
Eve Green,
the girl with all the gifts,
a traveller in time.
My friend also wanted to have a go, and sent me this political piece:
The Condition of the Working Class in England
Red seas under red skies;
Leviathan, bring up the bodies.
Children and youth uprooted.
Small great things,
Never let me go.
Does anyone else fancy writing any book spine poetry?
Laura Tisdall 
These are brilliant Laura! Very evocative. I particularly like the lines at the end of your first one.
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Thank you! I really enjoyed making them 🙂
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Wonderful job with these! I’m so impressed at what people have come up with, especially compared with my off-the-cuff efforts 😉 I particularly like your second one.
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Thank you! I loved yours as well 🙂
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These are excellent!
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Thank you! I’ve really enjoyed reading all the different ones.
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Love them! I especially like the first one… Probably because it’s in the library at night. 😉
It’s addictive, isn’t it? But at some point you have to stop so you can put away the scattered books!
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So many loose books! 🙂
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Oh bravo – these are brilliant! I’ve had a couple of stabs at spine poetry in the past and found it really challenging (in a good way; I enjoyed the mental workout).
SF: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqu3pLcniIN/
Fantasy: https://www.instagram.com/p/BjW5gQbg1qm/
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I love them! It’s interesting how the kind of physical books you happen to have affect the poetry. I have a lot of books on childhood and youth because that’s the kind of history I work on, whereas my friend is, unsurprisingly, a political philosopher 🙂
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Brilliant! I did some yesterday too as you know. I particularly love your fairy tale, it’s super.
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Thank you! The Oxford book of modern fairy tales is also a great book, I recommend it 🙂
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These are amazing! I particularly like your first one. Also I’ve never encountered anyone else who has and has read (presumably) “Dear Girl” which I bought as a late teen and really love.
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Oh fantastic! I actually bought Dear Girl for work (I’ve taught the history of gender and sexuality in the C19th and C20th in the past) so I have to admit I haven’t read it cover to cover, but I should, it’s brilliant.
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