▲ 12 r/Poetry
[POEM] Middle-age by Violet Nicolson
Imagine a woman in late 19th-century India, disguised as a boy, trekking through the rugged Afghan border with her husband, a colonial officer. This was the life of Violet Nicolson, who wrote under the pen name Laurence Hope. Her poetry, filled with unrequited love and loss, became wildly popular in the early 1900s. But her story is just as compelling as her verse. Born in England in 1865, she moved to India in her teens, falling in love with the country's culture, food, and customs. Her life was as dramatic as her poems, and her untimely death at 39 only added to her legend.
u/andygero — 1 day ago
▲ 1 r/IMadeThis
I made a place to rediscover poetry: describe a feeling, meet a poet from history, hear the poem read aloud
I didn't build this to launch a startup. I built it because I kept meeting people who were sure poetry wasn't for them, and I never believed that. I think they just never found their poem, or their poet.
So the whole site is about finding a way back in. A few of them:
You can describe how you're feeling and it finds the poem that meets it, out of 362,000 public domain poems in 12 languages.
You can open a map and see the poets who lived where you live now, going back hundreds of years. That one still gets me. Someone was writing verse a few streets from your house in 1780.
You can hear any poem read aloud, generated on demand. This is the one I'm proudest of. A poem spoken well hits differently to a poem skimmed on a screen.
And if you don't want to search at all, there's a theme of the day to just wander into.
Been building it for about a year. Would love to know what you find.
u/andygero — 3 days ago
▲ 0 r/SideProject
[Launch] A year building a way to fall in love with poetry: describe a feeling, meet a poet from history, hear it read aloud
I didn't set out to build a side project. I set out to fix something that quietly bothers me: so many people are convinced poetry isn't for them, and I've never believed it. I think they just never got handed the right poem, or met the right poet.
So Poetry Cove is really a set of doors back in.
The main one: you describe how you feel, in plain words, and it finds the poem that meets it, out of 362,000 public domain poems across 12 languages. Semantic, not keyword.
Then it keeps going. You can ask an AI about the poem, what it means, who wrote it, what they lived through. You can open a map and see poets who lived where you live now, going back centuries. There's a theme of the day if you want to wander. And you can have any poem read aloud, generated on demand, which is the feature I'm quietly proudest of, because a poem heard is a completely different thing to a poem skimmed.
Been at it about a year. Launching on Product Hunt this week. Would love feedback of any temperature.
u/andygero — 3 days ago
▲ 9 r/Rabbitr1
Poem a Day: a tiny free creation that gives you one poem every morning on your R1
I built a small creation for the R1 called Poem a Day. It does one thing: each morning it gives you a single public-domain poem, typeset to actually look nice on the 240x282 screen, and you read it stanza by stanza with the scroll wheel.
A few things that make it feel at home on the device:
- One poem a day, the same poem of the day as poetry-cove.com, so it changes daily and never repeats
- Scroll wheel moves through the stanzas one at a time, no cramped scrolling
- Shake the R1 to shuffle to another poem from the day's theme
- Dark mode, embedded fonts, and a small bundled set of poems so it still works if the network hiccups
- Everything is public domain. No account, no sign-in, no tracking
To add it, scan the QR below with your R1 (it installs from poem.poetry-cove.com). If you'd rather not scan, the address is poem.poetry-cove.com.
It's free and I made it because I wanted a calm, literary thing to open instead of a feed. Would love feedback, especially on readability and the shake-to-shuffle. If people enjoy it I'm happy to keep tuning it.
u/andygero — 9 days ago