The concept of book spine poetry appeared in 1993 with Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project. Katchadourian began collecting interesting titles and arranging them in clusters so the spines could be read like a sentence(s) or poem.
Brida, Before I Say Good-Bye, I’ll Be Seeing You, On the Street Where You Live.
There’s a Spine Poetry Group on Facebook. You can check it out here.
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AWesome..LOved IT
Glad you liked it, Praveen 🙂
very nice 🙂 you seem to be a fan of Mary Higgins Clark.
Thks! Yeah, I have her some 17 books! 😛
Loved it.. excellent.. You have so many books I guess…
Thanks. Glad you liked it! Yes, I have a few at home! 🙂
Shilpa,
Touching message before departing told so well by arranging books in that way. Innovative.
Take care
Yes, a wonderful message before leaving! Thanks 🙂
Well composed. 🙂
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This one is quite nice. It will be good to see spine poetry become an inspiration for a book title. For example, in the above sequence, if the second book was not written yet then someone could write a book on that title. I know, it’s the worst reason to write a book, but I always keep getting creative ideas like these 🙂
Destination Infinity
Now that’s a very creative and very different thought! 😀
This has come out really well Shilpa! The flow and the sequence is just perfect!
Glad you think so too, A 🙂
Innovative, Shilpa!
Thanks Mr Bhatia 🙂
PERFECT!! I loved this genre of poetry and now i am inspired by you. will try this sometime with the few books that i have 🙂
Cool. Look forward to your Spine Poetry! 🙂
Ha sure look forward to.
Yes and wonder what would happen when they meet! 😀
Sweet!! 🙂
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Awesome! Thanks for introducing me to this concept. It’s completely new to me. I’ll be definitely trying it out at home. 🙂
Great! Do that with your books and share it with us!! 🙂
another innovative poem 🙂
Bikram’s
Yessss :))
Ah!! this has turned out so well!!!
Yeah, this looks good! 😀
HI Dear
This is my first time at your blog..Find it very creative 🙂
Would like to be your friend.
Love
Sabi Sunshine
Thanks Sabi and welcome to this space! 🙂
Love this poetry form. good one 🙂
Thank you A 🙂