Poetry audiobooks

The Forerunner & The Madman

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Most famously known for his book The Prophet, the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, who has been called "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century."
Contained herein are two lesser known works. The Madman was the first book Kahlil published in English, and it's success was... Read more

The Big J vs The Big C: Issues, Experiences and Poems in the Battle Against Breast Cancer

By: Janine Booth

Narrated by: Janine Booth

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, author and activist Janine Booth was part of the ranting poetry movement of the eighties, performing as 'The Big J'. In late 2016, she discovered a strange indentation in her right breast and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. In this collection of candid journal extracts, poetry, meticulous research and substantive politics,... Read more

The Vivian Poems

By: Bruce Rice

Narrated by: Zoé Beaulieu Prpick

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than... Read more

This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Work is love made visible.” - Khalil GibranFilled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. This audiobook, narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, contains two full versions of The Prophet: Part One, with music by Stefan Frankenberger. Part Two, with... Read more

The Essential T.S. Eliot

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: T. S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Wi...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart,  Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith,... Read more

Lean Against This Late Hour

By: Garous Abdolmalekian

Narrated by: Sean Rohani

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 

A vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent... Read more

Conversations with Good Men

By: Bethel Swift

Narrated by: Bethel Swift

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversations with Good Men is a three-act drama, written in verse, that takes readers on a journey of love, longing, heartbreak, and hope. Swift’s poems compassionately explore the concept of man’s “goodness” in addition to her own struggles as a single female navigating the world of dating and relationships while contending with anxiety,... Read more

The Malevolent Volume

By: Justin Phillip Reed

Narrated by: Justin Phillip Reed

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between
the monstrous and the sublime.

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural
fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the... Read more

Prince Neptune

By: Cody R. Simpson

Narrated by: Cody R. Simpson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.
Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, Prince... Read more

#Wuhan2

By: Sophia Behal

Narrated by: Sophia Behal

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The book is the second part of #Wuhan. It is called #Wuhan2 and it deals with feelings the pandemic might invoke. Most certainly are all of us scared from an epidemy. Find some alarming and soothing words in this book of poetry. Read more

Notizen zur Melodie der Dinge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Kevin Sodekamp

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainer Maria Rilke wurde am 4. Dezember 1875 in Prag-Neustadt geboren. Er ist, wie neon-text media meint, zwischen Hölderlin und Celan jener Dichter deutscher Sprache im Höhenzug der Menschheit, an dem kein Vorbei ist. Rilkes Prosatext ›Notizen zur Melodie der Dinge‹ entstand vermutlich im Herbst 1898. Er besteht aus 40 Teilen, die mit römischen... Read more

And the Prophet Said

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

And the Prophet Said is a new, complete edition of Kahlil Gibran’s classic text with more than 150 unpublished poems, aphorisms, and epigrams.Originally published in 1923, The Prophet is a teaching fable that has been cherished by millions for nearly one hundred years. It is a book of wisdom that provides guidance for readers on how to live a... Read more

The Dry Valley

By: Bernadette Wagner

Narrated by: Bernadette Wagner

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dry Valley encapsulates one woman’s relationship with herself, her alcoholic spouse, and the world, in three different Saskatchewan landscapes. The poems offer a fascinating interplay between mindful explorations of self and immersions in the challenging complexities of interpersonal relationships, social issues and meaningful engagement... Read more

THE PROPHET

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Derrick M

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the classic poetry collection that has stood the test of time.Delving into the nature of humanity, love, mortality, society, knowledge and the human condition, the incredible poetry collection The Prophet has transcended the ages to resonate in the hearts of people to this day.An inspiring assortment of 28 chapters concerning everything... Read more

dayliGht

By: Roya Marsh

Narrated by: Roya Marsh

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race.

Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing." With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an... Read more

After Fame

By: Sam Riviere

Narrated by: Sam Riviere

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I. Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the source material through a variety of 'treatments' - most notably machine translation (for which Latin still presents near-insurmountable difficulties), employing the results... Read more

Build Yourself a Boat

By: Camonghne Felix

Narrated by: Camonghne Felix

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. Read more

Inquire Within

By: In-Q

Narrated by: In-Q

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful and innovative book of poetry and wisdom, award-winning spoken-word poet, songwriter, and performer IN-Q inspires us to question everything we know and see around us and inside us, to discover what matters most.""Poetry celebrates vulnerability as a strength rather than a weakness. It is a timeless form of storytelling that... Read more

All Along You Were Blooming

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection of poetry and prose invites you to stumble into the sunlight and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given.Popular Instagram poet and bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols gives you... Read more

Forever England : The Life Of Rupert Brooke

By: Mike Read

Narrated by: Mike Read

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship, mental illness and politics. He reveals also the existence of a previously unrecorded... Read more

The Book of Poems

By: Denisse Molina Fisher

Narrated by: Michael Davis

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this charming Book of Poems, you will find poems that allows you to self-examine your own perceptions, inner-most feelings and choices. You will gain wisdom as your invited to ponder topics such as Empowerment, Resiliency, Compassion, Imperfection, Change, Self-Forgiveness, Storytelling, Boundaries, Conflict, Communication and... Read more

We Inherit What the Fires Left

By: William Evans

Narrated by: William Evans

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs... Read more

Riflessioni in Versi

By: Juan Moisés De La Serna

Narrated by: Marina di Paola

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

La vita, cos`è la vita? Nessuno sa come rispondere. È il momento presente? O è stato ieri? Cosa sarà? La vita, cos`è la vita? Iniziamo a pensare. Quale risposta troviamo? Forse non ci piacerà. La vita, cos`è la vita? Per quanto ci pensiamo nessuno ce lo sa dire e noi non troviamo risposta. La vita, cos`è la vita? Viviamo quando sogniamo? La... Read more