Good but you have to pay for all poems
Great poems and I guess they have to make money somehow.
Enjoyed Until The June Featured Section Arrived
I really enjoyed this app, until the featured section permanently switched to “voices of pride” that you cannot minimize or hide. We don’t need to know the sexual orientation of poets and this app certainly shouldn’t be rated for ages 4+. I ended up canceling my subscription because of it. A shame.
paywalls blocking poetry
its actually a joke. what has man made of man?
This is what apps were intended to be made for.
A wonderful selection of a bricolage of poems and poets well known and obscure, a highlight of my day and a great way to read poems that slipped through the cracks in high school, college or after school. Well designed and easy to use. Free. A delight in an Internet ecosystem full of so much detritus and junk.
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Solid App; Limited Poems
I like this app and was going to pay for the subscription, but a third of the classic poems or poets I searched for are not included in this app. If the library was bigger, I’d pay to access it.
Brilliant app
Poetry seems an overlooked thing these days, but there are excellent, inspiring and life affirming poems and this is an excellent app to find both old and new poems
Awesomeness
Wisdom and knowledge at the touch of a finger for those curious minds. Thank you
Lacking international & contemporary poetry
Where is Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, Naruda, Hafiz, Rumi, or Jericho Brown? I could not find the international and contemporary poets I love so much. Please consider expanding your scope. There is a whole world of beautiful poetry out there.
Money, it’s a gas
Having to pay to read poetry is real strange.
Love the app
Best way to get the best poetry
Much better than Poem Hunter!
So many options to search and there’s a tracker to encourage reading.
Love the app!!!
I absolutely love the selection of poets the app has and really enjoy having instant access to so many poems at anytime on my phone!
Really good
Subscription is literally £2-3 monthly. Even without money, the app is great.
It has a similar aura to Apple’s ‘Books’ app, so Poetry Corner already feels familiar to me.
You can save your favourite poems, and more features are available.
It has a similar aura to Apple’s ‘Books’ app, so Poetry Corner already feels familiar to me.
You can save your favourite poems, and more features are available.
Can’t even find the most famous of poets!
I tried testing this app by using the search feature to look for famous poets. I tried searching for three poets that even the most casual lover of poetry would know of, and it returned “No results found” for each one.
Response from developer
Hi there :) thanks for the feedback. The Poetry Corner currently only features poets that are in the public domain - it would be great to have some more recent ones, but copyrighted content can’t be added at the moment. Let me know if there are some public-domain poets that you would be like to added :)
A true treasure trove
Absolutely love this app. I have been using it every single day for the past two months before going to bed. It keeps track of your streak so you stay motivated and has a wide and eclectic selection of poetry styles. Developer is responsive and obviously cares about his work. Highly recommend checking it out.
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Wish I could give this more than two stars
I've tried contacting the app developers of this app twice through their app support page and have been ignored both times. I am visually impaired but I'm a paying subscriber and I wanted to ask them to please include font size accessibility options for those of us who need it so we can increase the font size to comfortably read the poems and have a better user experience. Maybe their app support page isn't working but I couldn't find any other way to contact them so I'm resorting to a bad review. This is a nice app but I can't give it more than 2 stars since it's not user friendly for me and my feedback has gone ignored. I'd love to rate it higher if more accessibility features are added in the future, but if not I won't be resubscribing once my subscription expires.
EDIT: I’ve changed my rating from 2 to 4 stars since someone finally responded and said they’re working on a new app version with accessibility features. So just waiting for that for now :)
EDIT: I’ve changed my rating from 2 to 4 stars since someone finally responded and said they’re working on a new app version with accessibility features. So just waiting for that for now :)
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Wish I could give this more than two stars
I've tried contacting the app developers of this app twice through their app support page and have been ignored both times. I am visually impaired but I'm a paying subscriber and I wanted to ask them to please include font size accessibility options for those of us who need it so we can increase the font size to comfortably read the poems and have a better user experience. Maybe their app support page isn't working but I couldn't find any other way to contact them so I'm resorting to a bad review. This is a nice app but I can't give it more than 2 stars since it's not user friendly for me and my feedback has gone ignored. I'd love to rate it higher if more accessibility features are added in the future, but if not I won't be resubscribing once my subscription expires.
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Beauty in all writings
This app is full of uniquely beautiful writings I love to read for inspiration and I love writing them in my personal journal I save quotes and poems etc I choose to keep for when I start my blog I can share them with others and keep its beauty going in hopes they can and will inspire more out there
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Enjoyable experience, but would like more BIPOC poems
I enjoy the reading experience provided by this app. I’ve tried a few poetry apps and they’re often filled with random poetry seemingly submitted by users, or are cluttered and hard to use. This app is simple and focuses on the poetry. I don’t mind paying to support an enjoyable experience and the additional info provided.
That being said I would love more representation from authors of color. There are mostly African American and a few Japanese poets here, but they pale in comparison to the amount of poems by white people. You can read all the poems by BIPOC in a few hours while the white poetry goes on for days.
Additionally most of the poems featured by black authors are about race, in the same way that my university courses focused on blackness and black literature being about slavery and race. I don’t blame the app developer for this as the (predominantly white) scholarship on black authors really tends to hyperfocus on the work where they address oppression, and then tends to focus on the oppression topic to the exclusion of the other things they’re doing in their work. Black poets do write about other things, including the poets currently in the app, but I don’t see those poems represented in the app (unless I am mistaken). It’s common for white-led scholarship to primarily elevate the BIPOC pieces that address racism, but disappointing as a fan of these poets.
It’s not that BIPOC poets don’t address racial themes in their work - they do! But they do also write about other things. Even when they do write about race and racism, there is more nuance to their different approaches (which often contradict and disagree with each other) and unfortunately white scholars tend to ignore that, as if all poetry about racism is saying the same thing. Additionally, white scholarship tends to narrow these poet’s contributions to JUST the themes of race, while celebrating other white author’s skilled use of nature, rhythm, and imagery etc. So we get a world where most BIPOC authors poetry that is easily accessible is only poetry about oppression, and their craft isn’t discussed. As a fan and a black person, it makes for a bleak reading experience 😆 BIPOC poets deserve to be covered from more than the basic “black people wrote about racism and that was their major contribution to poetry” angle that is commonly found.
Would love to see changes made and additional poems by latinx and other BIPOC-Americans added. I might even suggest finding some BIPOC poetry fans to ask for their takes. Even when black folks do write about oppression, we’re saying and doing more than just “racism exists and here’s a poem about the experience of it” in the same way that white poets writing about heartbreak are saying and doing more than just “I’m sad and my heart is broken.” Again, this is not a criticism of the app developer, as this is the standard and common approach to BIPOC poetry, but there is an opportunity for this app go beyond the common “POC only write about racism” and “we highlight the exoticism of their poetry rather than their skill and craft” that you can find anywhere as part of token efforts to be “diverse.”
Thanks again for the app, hoping to see more poems over time!
That being said I would love more representation from authors of color. There are mostly African American and a few Japanese poets here, but they pale in comparison to the amount of poems by white people. You can read all the poems by BIPOC in a few hours while the white poetry goes on for days.
Additionally most of the poems featured by black authors are about race, in the same way that my university courses focused on blackness and black literature being about slavery and race. I don’t blame the app developer for this as the (predominantly white) scholarship on black authors really tends to hyperfocus on the work where they address oppression, and then tends to focus on the oppression topic to the exclusion of the other things they’re doing in their work. Black poets do write about other things, including the poets currently in the app, but I don’t see those poems represented in the app (unless I am mistaken). It’s common for white-led scholarship to primarily elevate the BIPOC pieces that address racism, but disappointing as a fan of these poets.
It’s not that BIPOC poets don’t address racial themes in their work - they do! But they do also write about other things. Even when they do write about race and racism, there is more nuance to their different approaches (which often contradict and disagree with each other) and unfortunately white scholars tend to ignore that, as if all poetry about racism is saying the same thing. Additionally, white scholarship tends to narrow these poet’s contributions to JUST the themes of race, while celebrating other white author’s skilled use of nature, rhythm, and imagery etc. So we get a world where most BIPOC authors poetry that is easily accessible is only poetry about oppression, and their craft isn’t discussed. As a fan and a black person, it makes for a bleak reading experience 😆 BIPOC poets deserve to be covered from more than the basic “black people wrote about racism and that was their major contribution to poetry” angle that is commonly found.
Would love to see changes made and additional poems by latinx and other BIPOC-Americans added. I might even suggest finding some BIPOC poetry fans to ask for their takes. Even when black folks do write about oppression, we’re saying and doing more than just “racism exists and here’s a poem about the experience of it” in the same way that white poets writing about heartbreak are saying and doing more than just “I’m sad and my heart is broken.” Again, this is not a criticism of the app developer, as this is the standard and common approach to BIPOC poetry, but there is an opportunity for this app go beyond the common “POC only write about racism” and “we highlight the exoticism of their poetry rather than their skill and craft” that you can find anywhere as part of token efforts to be “diverse.”
Thanks again for the app, hoping to see more poems over time!
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don’t bother downloading
literally all the content is locked behind a paywall
Response from developer
Hi there, thanks for the feedback :) This is quite a common approach for a lot of apps in the App Store. I am personally very keen to avoid monetising the app using any form of ads, as I don't feel like they go very well with poetry. While the option to support the app is through a paid plan, it is one of the cheapest plans that Apple allow developers to use. Sorry the app wasn't what you were looking for!
