Poetry Explorer for iPad

Poetry Explorer is for anyone interested in getting inside a poem or prose excerpt, rather than leaving it flat on the page, like a set-text. It enables you to copy any text onto your screen, and then offers two ways of interactively re-creating the poetry, to see its inner workings:

1) Mark-up
• you can use highlights and arrows to play with how one word stands out, or links with another earlier or later, in the poem's own brain.

2) Fridge Poetry
• you can substitute one word for another of your choice, or change the word order, to see if it works better or worse that way.

There is also a split-screen option so two people can do the poetry together - two friends, parent and child, or in an educational setting, teacher and student.

The App, for iPad, is available from Apple's App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/poetry-explorer/id1536973486

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