Touch Poet is well-timed iPhone app that could help even the most word blind would-be poet compose the perfect Valentines day ode.
Want to write your Valentine a sonnet, but can’t find the words? Touch Poet aims to kick your creativity up a gear by presenting you with a screenful of words that you can rearrange until something clicks.
Touch Poet is a bit like those ‘magnetic poetry’ fridge magnets, but rather than just giving you a bag of preset words, Touch Poet draws its vocabulary from a wide range of classic sources including Shakespeare, Coleridge and Kipling.
To ensure things don’t get too bogged down in the past, Touch Poet will also drag words in from Digg headlines, CNN and other zeitgeisty sources.
The app will pull in a random selection of words from your preselected sources abnd present them as slips of ‘paper’ that you can touch and drag aroudn using a surprisingly nice physic engine.
Once your masterpiece is complete, Touch Poet will let you email it to your beloved or post it to Twiter. Who said romance was dead?
