What's new

You tell the cove how you feel. What comes back should sound like someone who has sat with poems for a long time, not like an assistant announcing search results.

Now it does.

New

• A real voice. Replies are direct, warm and unhurried. They meet the feeling you shared before the poem arrives, and they stop short of explaining everything, leaving you something to carry.
• Body first. When the cove talks about a poem, it starts with what the poem does to a person, where it lands, before what it means. Interpretation stays an invitation: it seems to me, I wonder, perhaps.

Improved

• Stronger first replies. The opening reply of every conversation, the one that matters most, is now written by a more capable model.
• A steadier hand. The voice keeps the same temperament across the whole conversation, in UK English, with no tidy endings and no em dashes.

Some poems only fully arrive when you hear them.

Now every English poem on Poetry Cove can be read aloud. Tap Listen and, if no reading exists yet, one is created for you in moments: a narrated performance with the text scrolling and each word glowing as it is spoken.

New

• Listen on any poem. A reading is generated on demand and starts playing as soon as it is ready, with no wait for a studio recording.
• Read along. An immersive full-screen view shows the poem with each word underlined exactly as the voice lands it. Turn it off if you would rather just listen.
• A voice that fits the poet. Readings use a narrator matched to the poet: British, American, or Scottish, in a male or female voice.
• Saved for everyone. Once a poem has been read, it joins the Siren Echoes library, so the next person hears it instantly.
• Keep listening while you browse. Minimise the player to a small pill and carry on reading, chatting, or wandering the cove. The audio follows you.

Improved

• The reading view names what is playing: the poem title and author sit above the first line and scroll up with the text.
• Generated readings close with a gentle pause, so the final line has room to breathe.
• Longer poems now get readings too. Very long ones show a friendly note, with a way to tell us you would like that poem recorded.

Poetry is personal. With Harbour, it stays that way.

Harbour is your private corner of Poetry Cove — a single place where every poem, author, voyage, and echo you've saved waits for you, organised however you like.

New

• Anthologies — build your own collection. Gather poems under a title and a cover, arrange them in any order, and share the anthology with a link anyone can visit. Give it a pen name, write the thread that ties it together, and publish it as your own. The poems are public domain; the curation is yours.
• Save anything, from anywhere. A bookmark button now lives on every poem page, author page, voyage, and echo. One tap saves it to Harbour; another removes it. Your saved items sync across devices when you're signed in.
• Your full reading history. Every conversation you've had with Poetry Cove is kept in the History tab — scroll back, revisit a poem, pick up a thread you left.
• Harbour in the navigation. Find it right in the nav, a tap away on every page.

Improved

• The poem list in Harbour adopts the same clean row style as voyage playlists — consistent, scannable, easy to act on.
• Dialogues across Harbour (add items, create anthology, confirm removals) now follow the standard Poetry Cove card pattern — consistent header, separator, and action buttons.
• Pen name syncs live between your account and anthology creation so you only set it once.
• Sort and delete controls on the History tab match the behaviour you already knew from the old history screen.
• Mobile touch targets, scroll-lock, and keyboard handling across Harbour audited and tightened.

Fixed

• A page-load flash where your name and theme briefly appeared as if you were signed out — now resolved.
• On some iPhones, popups were hidden behind the navigation pill; they now sit correctly above it.
• Siren's mini-player crashed on the Echo page; fixed by moving the global audio context into the right provider.
• Toast notifications in dark mode now meet contrast requirements and pause their timer when you hover.

Poetry Cove began as a place to read a poem for what you feel. With 1.0, it becomes a place to hear one.

Meet Siren — our audio companion. Siren gathers poems into guided voyages: a host leads you through a themed sequence, each poem read aloud and set to music, so a single mood deepens from one poem to the next. Press play, and let it carry you.

New

• Siren voyages — poems, read aloud. A curated sequence of poems, read by a warm host voice and woven with music, made to be listened to from start to finish. Our first voyage, The Hours Before Dawn, is live now.
• Words that light up as they're spoken. The text follows the voice line by line, karaoke-style — follow along, or close your eyes and just listen.
• A player made for listening. Full-screen on your phone, a slim mini-player while you keep browsing, a living visualizer behind the words, adjustable reading speed, a queue you can see at a glance, and chrome that follows light or dark mode.
• Lock-screen playback. Lock the phone, drop it in a pocket, and Siren keeps reading — the poem, author, and voyage on your lock screen, with play / pause / skip on the buttons, in Control Center, on AirPods, and on car displays.
• Built to be heard, by everyone. Audio recovers gracefully when a connection drops, unlocks cleanly on iPhone, and ends each voyage with a gentle close. Siren respects reduced-motion settings, offers generous tap targets, announces itself to screen readers, and keeps focus clear throughout.
• Find Siren from anywhere. It lives right in the navigation, a tap away on every page.

Improved

• A Poetry Cove favicon at last. The little C mark, in your browser tab and on your home screen — no more Vercel triangle.
• Your account, at a glance. The profile menu now shows your name, email, and Google photo.

Fixed

• The first-time welcome introduction now scrolls cleanly on smaller phones.

Siren's voices are created with ElevenLabs, whose creator grant helps make this listening experience possible.

A small update with a big intention. Poetry Cove changes often, and from now on you'll be able to follow along — what's new, what got better, and what we quietly fixed.

New

• A What's new page, linked from the footer
• A gentle popup that tells you when something meaningful arrives

Improved

• Clearer navigation in the footer

A wave of additions to the collection — and to the ways you move through it.

New

• A reworked search — a new filter drawer narrows poets by language, mood, style, theme, nationality and century, with an A–Z jumper and a dedicated Authors view to page through them.
• Shakespeare in English — all 154 sonnets, plus Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and A Lover's Complaint, joining the translations already here.
• Reading across languages — when a poet appears in more than one language, translations are clearly marked, and you can move straight from one language to another.

Improved

• Richer browsing by style and theme — every poem is now sorted by its style and what it's about, so exploring by feeling reaches deeper into the collection.
• Tidier author pages — poets who accidentally appeared twice are merged into one. Emily Dickinson now gathers all 446 of her poems in a single place.
• Dutch poets, in Dutch — biographies for Dutch authors now read in their own language.

Fixed

• Poems no longer turn up under the wrong poet.

Poetry Cove now speaks every one of its twelve languages, end to end — this is the release where the whole place finally greets you in your own.

New

• The whole interface, in your language — every screen, from Daily Muse to search to author pages, now reads in any of the twelve languages. Sign in and your choice follows you from device to device.
• A welcome worth arriving to — first-time visitors are met by a short eight-part introduction to what Poetry Cove is and how to find a poem for what you feel.
• Search the entire collection — every poem is now within reach of a search, not just a fraction of them.
• Find poems by theme — search by mood or subject and surface poems that match the feeling, not just the words.

Improved

• Gentler with hard moments — when you bring something heavy, Poetry Cove responds with care rather than a poem about despair, and points toward real support.
• Honest when nothing fits — if there's no true match for what you asked, it says so plainly instead of stretching a weak one.

The Daily Muse opens up — its charts now invite a closer look, and the poets behind the poems come into sharper focus.

New

• Explore the Daily Muse by century and language — tap any bar on the Across the Centuries or Across Languages charts to narrow the day's poems and poets to that era or tongue. Tap again to clear.
• Charts that talk to each other — choose a century and the language chart reshapes to show what was written then; choose a language and the centuries chart follows.
• Two ways to meet the day's poets — switch between the most prolific voices and a spread drawn fairly from across every language.

Improved

• A fuller sweep of time — the centuries chart now reaches all the way back, from the 1000s through the 1900s.
• More to know about each poet — added homelands for Norwegian, Portuguese, Italian, and Czech writers, and notable works on many more poet pages.

Fixed

• Translate returns — the option to read a poem in your language is back on the poem page and in the browse view.

A fresh coat of paint across the cove — and a new way to carry a poem out into the world.

New

• Share to Story — turn any poem or poet into a branded portrait card and send it straight to your phone's share sheet, Instagram and beyond. The link comes along on your clipboard, ready to paste.
• A deeper, inkier hue — our muted teal gives way to a deep ink blue, a steadier anchor for a place built around the written word.

Improved

• A lighter way to read — the top bar slims down and settles onto a warm cream, so the header and the page read as one continuous surface, with links that underline as you move through them.
• Long poems travel whole — download a multi-page poem as images and every page comes with you, even on iPhone, where later pages used to quietly slip away.
• More of your reading remembered — poems you meet through Daily Muse, search, the atlas, or a shared link now find their way into your history.
• Easier on every eye and device — sharper contrast, visible focus as you move by keyboard, roomier tap targets, and more of the interface translated and easier to read.

This is the big one — Poetry Cove grows from a chat into a place you can call your own. Make an account, keep your discoveries, share the poems that move you, and find your way by feeling through a living map of the collection.

New

• Dutch poetry — tens of thousands of Dutch poems join the collection, with a Dutch interface and a language picker to match.
• Sign in — create an account by magic link or Google, and your reading history follows you everywhere.
• The Constellation — a living map of poets, moods, and themes you can wander through, drifting from one discovery to the next.
• Search — look up any poet or poem by name from a page of its own.
• Share a poem — send the poems that stay with you, with a beautiful preview wherever they land.
• A poem of its own — every poem now has its own page, and titles link straight to it.

Improved

• A fresh way around — redesigned navigation puts the collection, the Constellation, and your account within easy reach.
• Poets by feeling — every poet is now tagged by mood, style, and theme.
• Translations side by side — each translated line sits neatly beneath its original, stanza for stanza.

The chat box was only ever one door into the collection. This release opens two more — and lets every poet's story be told more fully.

New

• Discover — search the poets by name and sift them by mood, style, theme, and the years they were born, all from one page.
• Atlas — a daily portrait of the whole collection: how many poets and poems, the centuries they span, the languages they carry, and the moods that run deepest.
• Suggested next steps — once a poem is in front of you, prompts to summarize it, unfold its meaning, or find a kindred poem sit ready above the message box.

Improved

• Lives told in their own language — author biographies now draw first from each poet's own-language source, so voices beyond English arrive fuller and truer.
• The right poet, more often — surer matching for names written with initials or in other tongues, so far fewer poets turn up missing or mistaken.
• Cleaner poem cards — each poem settles into its card without flicker or stray text.

Fixed

• The reply no longer repeats the poem back to you — it greets the poem and lets the verse speak for itself.

We reworked two first impressions: how you arrive, and the page behind every poet's name.

New

• A warmer welcome — first-time visitors are greeted by a slow, gentle introduction, each line settling before the next begins.
• Onboarding in your language — the welcome speaks the language you're reading in, and waits for you before moving on.
• A full page for every poet — tap a name to open an author page with a portrait, their life and languages, a written biography, and a path straight into their poems.
• Their complete works — a poet's poems load as you scroll, however much they wrote.

Improved

• Light that follows the hour — the site opens light by day and dark by night, unless you've chosen for yourself.
• Author pages in your language — a poet's life and details now arrive translated for you, not only in English.
• A calmer, more even look — steadier typography and spacing across every page, with a freshly written About.

This release is about meeting you where you are — on the train, on your phone, on a connection that comes and goes.

Improved

• Made for your phone — the home and chat screens hold steady when the keyboard opens, with no sudden jumps, and the message box stays in view just below the top bar.
• Suggested prompts, always there — a few openings now sit quietly beneath the message box on the home and empty chat screens, in larger, easier-to-read text, so you always have a way in.
• Quicker, surer replies — answers arrive faster and read better, and browsing the collection is noticeably snappier.
• Room for longer poems — longer works flow through chat in full, and poem cards no longer flicker or restart as they stream.
• Steady on a weak signal — if your connection drops mid-conversation, the chat recovers gracefully instead of leaving you with a blank reply.

Fixed

• A round of small polish across the chat, message box, and the how-it-works screen.

The chat learns to breathe — and a new poem waits for you each day.

New

• Poem of the Day — a fresh poem greets you on the home page. Dive in and it unfolds line by line in a new chat, followed by a few warm words of introduction.
• A poem that suits the season — the daily poem reaches for spring in spring and winter in winter. Refresh any time for another.
• Quick actions on every poem — ask for a summary, its key images, or a deeper dive in a single tap.

Improved

• Faster first words — the chat begins replying noticeably sooner.
• Smoother, calmer streaming — replies and poems appear at one steady, unhurried pace, and switching to dark mode no longer flashes.
• Long poems, made easy — lengthier poems pause partway with a "Continue reading" button, so you can take them a few stanzas at a time.

Fixed

• Poems no longer appear twice — once in a card is enough.

Poetry Cove is born. Tell it how you feel, and it finds poems that meet you there.

New

• Search by feeling, not keywords — describe a mood or a moment, and poems that match its meaning surface from a library of tens of thousands of public-domain works.
• A chat that remembers — your conversations live on their own pages and stay saved, so you can leave and return to a poem you found weeks ago.
• Browse the poets — explore the collection by author, with pages built to be readable for everyone, including screen-reader and keyboard users.
• Poems in their own language — each poem is served in the language it was written in, from French to German to Russian.
• A home to begin from — a welcoming landing page, an About page, and clear Privacy, Terms, and Content Rights.
• A watchful eye — the animated eye logo gives Poetry Cove its first glance of character.