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Time, love and summer
A woman speaks
About time, love and summer:
Arrow in the blue;
Land of milk and honey,
Sixpence in her shoe.
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With thanks to the authors: Anaïs Nin, Paul Davies, William Trevor, Arthur Koestler, Bríd Mahon, and Maura Treacy; and to Nina Katchadourian, whose Sorted Books project started it for me.
Update: More, from Twitter: a gardeny one by @HarrietRycroft, and a stargazing one by @ozalba.
City of Lu has joined in, with a brace of funny examples.
Jessie Jessup has gone full throttle nerd swoon for book mash poetry — and offers six more here.
Chris Galvin felt National Poetry Month was the perfect excuse for her second book spine poem. And another: ‘Old Beijing‘.
Sentence first 
Very nice!
I love this!
Harry, Mieke, thank you both!
That’s wonderful! I’d like to try this sometime but unfortunately most of my books are packed away. . . but not all of them.
Brilliant!
Ashley: It’s fun to play with titles like this. I know what you mean about books being packed away (most of mine are in storage elsewhere), but two or three are enough if they go well together.
Claude: Glad you like it!
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what a fun idea!
Endless fun! Thanks for joining in. Yours are great; I’ve added a link above.
really great archive you have! hope you don’t mind created a list #bookmash for more access.
cheers
mura
Thanks, Mura. At first I called them book spine mashups, then Adrian Morgan used the term bookmash: this was a much catchier and more suitable word, so I adopted it.
Love this one! Thanks for including the link to mine.
Thank you, Chris! I liked yours too. I was reading Hesse recently (Knulp) but I haven’t read the one you used.
Oh, Knulp! Did you enjoy it, Stan? I did, very much.
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Ashley: Yes, I liked it a lot. Though my Picador copy has a very strange cover.
That’s the edition I have too. And you’re right, it is an odd choice for the cover.
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