Poems - Poetry in English

I used this app-or at least a close cousin-I suspect the same developer- years ago when I was just a tiny middle schooler. It’s simple interface and great selection opened my eyes as a kid to poetry in a way nothing else had. I poured over them, memorized a fair portion of favorites as well, and had an extensive starred list. (Even made a cringy middler school poetry-focused Instagram account. This app- the source of most my “content”.) Then for a long while, it wouldn’t open. Imagine my delight when I found, myself now an adult, my old friend re-emerged on the App Store. Unfortunately, the hyper-long ads for just a few clicks make the beauty of this app- casual scrolling and exploration- impossible. Unfortunate as I miss the curation of this selection. If developer had a one-time payment in return for no ads, even without search functionality, I’d happily pay it and return to using this app.

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.

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.