At Christchurch airport, with a coffee and some spine poetry, on the way to the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
Here are the books of three authors I’ll be interviewing this week: Kathy Lette, Roddy Doyle and Jeffrey Eugenides. From the top down, their titles make a neat little spine poem:
But there’s a whole lot of other great titles as well, how about:
Getting excited now – and no, it is not just the result of one airport coffee!
Got any festival spine poetry of your own to share?

11 May 2012 at 9:21 am
Well, Roberta, I’m sitting by a stack of Talking books… hows this for a random poem?
Devil to Pay
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Worth Dying For
or
11 May 2012 at 12:53 pm
The Children
Active listening
Do I get my allowance before or after I’m gounded
11 May 2012 at 5:50 pm
That’s great! Spine poems are so addictive!