Vogon Poetry Generator - @BBC - we want it back

It is a very sad day when one has to announce the Vogon Poetry Generator is no longer working.

Actually it has not been working for a while but I in my haphazard way hoped that:

1. People would stop using the link on p&g
2. ...well, it might just magically come back again.

But as you can see if you move your eyes right the Vogon Poetry Generator is the top post on the site. In spite of being uploaded in 2012 almost at the very start of p&g. People, and I assume not just fans of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, have an absolute craving to get creating their own Vogon poetry.

So why oh why in the age of apps and general ease with creating small bits of code that do useless but entertaining things has this been withdrawn instead of being gloriously recreated for a new generation on smart phones?

So join the Campaign and bug the BBC to get it working again. Or write a new one and make some money...

And if none of the above makes any sense to you at all I suggest: Don't Panic.

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A sample of Vogon Poetry

See, see the old sky 
Marvel at its big beige depths. 
Tell me, friend do you 
Wonder why the genet ignores you? 
Why its foobly stare 
makes you feel slithery. 
I can tell you, it is 
Worried by your offddddog facial growth 
That looks like 
A mould. 
What's more, it knows
Your clart potting shed 
Smells of grass.
Everything under the big old sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm my cats.

Poetry robot app

This is free from Scrumble Studios. It doesn't do much. It presents you with a poem that you can share by email or Facebook. The lines repeat in random stanza lengths and order. So quite arbitrary. It is from a while back too.

However the image of the colourful goats will live on...and this could be quite fun if it had a few more lines to scramble. Here is the poem is a more readable format.

Powerful and peaceful versus the summer
I command colorful goats behind the spring
Be transparent. The evil gets weird
Dark and drab regarding the trees
You conjure zealous inspirations up the fog
Crazy! The demon will come again
All scary off the fog
I examine drab illusions despite the mud
Oh God! The Queen is over

(Generated by the Robot Poetry Windows 7 Phone App)
You can find at your relevant app store.

And let us know if you have poetry apps you want us to review...preferably better than this one.

Maak gedicht

Schrijf een gedicht with this cunning little poem generator.

It seems to have a Christmassy feel but as they are already selling chocolates with reindeers on here in Scotland: why not?

You can find out more here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/poem?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon.

Visual poetry

Poem Flow is an app that turns poems into "a gentle reading animation".

An instant multimedia effect that allows you see the poem differently as it quietly reads itself to you. Twenty poems come with the app and you can add additional poems cheaply. Sample poems are from the western tradition canon e.g. Dover beach. The product is American in origin.

Your own poetry next? Are you already doing this?

More on the app here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/poem-flow/id339835648?mt=8.