[Simon Hunt]

At the barber shop yesterday, I read a blurb in Time magazine praising a new verse novel for the "Young Adult market", and it seemed to me that I've seen rather a lot of such announcements of late. Well, that might be overstating it. Certainly verse novels for teenagers aren't likely to outsell manga, celebrity autobiographies, or books with funny pictures of cats any time soon. But it does seem to me (and it's confirmed by almost two full minutes of research on Wikipedia) that

1) the verse novel has made a bit of a comeback in recent years;
and
2) verse novels aimed at teenagers are disproportionately represented in that comeback.

Anybody else notice this? Or have any sense of what, if anything, it "means"? Or have any recently published verse novels to recommend?