Read it, hear it, watch it: a new app brings poetry alive (UK)

The Wire star Dominic West is backing a free new app designed to bring poetry to a mass audience. West is one of more than 30 British actors from Dan Stevens to the late Harold Pinter who read dozens of poems on The Poetry App whose development was begun by the writer Josephine Hart before her death from cancer. It aims to emulate the success of her long-running Poetry Hours in which she would introduce poems that would then be read aloud by a star cast