Poems - Poetry in English

Instead of poetry

I want it without ads. Another, paid version?

Too many ads

I started using this app about a month or so ago. As a lover of poetry, I was drawn to the elegant and simple approach to accessing and reading poetry. The best part about this app? The Favorites’ feature. Having this feature in place allows one to savor and quickly call up their favorite poems, making it simple to read and experience them again and again. Since using the app, I have been curating favorite poems and revisiting them there. In my view, this app is one of a kind and is just lovely! However, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the mismanagement of user expectations I’ve most recently experienced. About a week or so ago, the app was given an update (the first in around two years time). Unfortunately, the update wiped out ALL of my favorite poems that I’d been saving. ALL OF THEM. I want to love this app, and I want to recommend it to other users. But honestly, failing to account for a feature like this during an update betrays a lack of UX (or at least a mismanagement of it). If this could be remedied, I would most certainly be using this app again. However at this point, I have deleted it and have no plans of using it in the future.

Great! There are so many poems here that are even difficult to find via google… but I wish there was a search function-for sure 5 stars then!

So too is good English poetry served on demand in the palm of your hand. This app does as advertised. It walks you into the world of wondrous English prose as imagined and written by some of the greats. How it is designed to use the push notification feature is nice. It is a nice app for the poetry lover, English and otherwise.

Probably one explicit drawback is the missing of Byron....

Not sure about ownership of copyright on some newer poets. Needs looking into. Also needs search, poets arranged by last name, an alphabet slider to get to poets of choice, and poems within poet arranged so poems in a series are connected at least visually. Great selection though.

This ad heavy app has a great deal of poetry that is copyrighted and not in the public domain. Are the poets et:al being compensated for the use of these poems? The poems are poorly laid out without proper formatting and some aren’t “poems” at all. Not worth the time and exposure to intrusive ads some of which are video with all the data and battery power sucking attendant nonsense.

I love this app! I use it everyday as a quick reference when I don’t have my poetry books with me. I wish Sylvia Plath poems were included. Otherwise, fabulous app!