It’s Poetry Friday. This week I have been trying to restore some order into my workspace. This is an almost unending task because I am not a very tidy person, and my office space is limited to a corner of the loungeroom. One day, one day, I will have an office of my own (which will be sad, because it will mean less of my beautiful children are living at home),  but I do wonder if, even then, I’ll manage to keep my workspace organised.

Anyway, as I tried desperately to reorganise my books on children’s poetry, and of children’s poetry, which I’ve got all shelved within arm’s reach, I saw a Book Spine Poem emerging. Some thought, some rearranging, and a not completely successful attempt to get my camera to focus nicely, I had a poem about poetry, which seemed apt.

As I put the books away, I moved the verse novel, Heartbeat, to be with my many other verse novels, and immediately saw the beginnings of another poem. Some thought, some rearranging – yup, you’ve got the drill – and I had a second poem.

As I put these books away I realised that one of them was miscategorised too, since One Perfect Pirouette is not a verse novel, though it is by one of my favourite Australian verse novelists. I was tempted to put it away and see if that created a third opportunity, but then I realised I was in danger of spending the whole day making Book Spine Poetry and not getting the task at hand done.

Okay, back to work for me. If you’d like to see more great poetry and posts about poetry, head over to the Poetry Friday roundup, which this week is hosted at the amazing Poetry for Children blog.