Some weeks ago I made a visual poem from book spines to mark the 90th anniversary of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED editors liked it enough to republish it on their website; they also asked me a few things about language, dictionaries, and book spine poetry.
You can read my short interview on the new OED blog. If dictionaries and word history interest you, I recommend the rest of the blog – click the image below – which looks at the OED‘s reception in 1928, the work of editors past and present, and dialect words from around the world, among other things.
For more book spine poems, aka bookmashes, see the archive.
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What a marvelous book spine poem, Stan — and what a marvelous interview, too. Congratulations on both.
Thank you, Heide – they were fun to do. One day I’ll have more of my books to hand and will be able to make these poems more often.
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