Backing up - or editing some poetry? (9)
I believe the answer is:
reversing
'backing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'up or editing some poetry?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'poetry?' could be 'vers' (I've seen this before) and 'vers' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reversing that I've seen before include "Reserving for going backwards" , "Going backwards as in a car" .)