Poetry audiobooks

TRAVEL IN TIME

By: Anisoara Laura Mustetiu

Narrated by: Nicole Blessing

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Written to make you smile, dream, cry, and shudder by the magic of love. Travel in Time, A Life Story in Poems is for you, as a reader, an experience of a new world; a world where fantasy and reality have created distinct imageries and memorable moments. It is the story of a young girl and her profound and painful love, the story of her... Read more

Les sonnets

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Laurent Natrella

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Les sonnets parus en 1609 mais rédigés au fil des décennies précédentes résonnent encore aujourd'hui de part les thèmes intemporels qu'ils abordent, le désir, l'amour, la jalousie, le doute, la vieillesse, la mort. Ces 154 poèmes nous offrent à voir un concentré de l'univers shakespearien passionné, touchant, universel. Traduction, François Guizot. Read more

Sateen jälkeen

By: Saima Harmaja

Narrated by: Ritva-Liisa Elivuo

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Suunnaton kuuaavoilta heijastuu.Siinnossa pettävän kevään se kultana väikkyy.Siintäen läikkyyaaltoja rantaan ja taivaan himmeys hentovain yhä tummentuu, kun varjojen lentokäy yli maan."Saima Harmajan runokokoelma "Sateen jälkeen" julkaistiin Harmajan ollessa vain 22-vuotias. Rakkaus ja luonnon kauneus nousevat teoksessa pääosaan – ja välillä... Read more

Noesis

By: Rob Taylor

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Noesis takes readers through a transcendent journey into the substratum of our collective consciousness serving as a poetic complement to Rob Taylor’s first book, The Irreducible Primary. In unison, these fifty poems boldly engage contentious spiritual, social, and political conditions commonplace in today’s global community.Rob Taylor’s poetry... Read more

Silent No Longer Collection

By: The Brickley Bray Project

Narrated by: The Brickley Bray Project

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Let all our voices gather and rise, up to the heavens and fill the sky.” Be Silent No Longer Pop Poetry Fusion These are compelling words, to be certain. They are The Brickley Bray Project’s call to action. As much as we believe we should act, or do, or participate, we all have difficulty taking that first step. The Brickley Bray Project wants... Read more

Somos 4-Life

By: Nancy León & Celia León

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A common theme in life is death. Those who lose someone to death must find a way to continue living. Grief was not something for me to understand or even question. Grief was something I had to experience. For a long time after Ricky’s death, I woke up unable to see the morning sun. Two questions overwhelmed my mind; why did Ricky die, and what... Read more

A Certain Clarity

By: Lawrence Joseph

Narrated by: Lawrence Joseph

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyer

Beginning with his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph’s poetry “of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness” (John... Read more

Norden und andere Richtungen (Ungekürzt)

By: Mona Harry

Narrated by: Mona Harry

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NORDEN ist eine Hymne auf die Landstriche an den Küsten. Auf prasselnden Regen, wogende Meere und Wolkentürme. Auf Schafe aus Watte und schlafende Watten. Auf Meeresleuchten, Friesennerz und Gummistiefel. Auch die weiteren Texte sind wunderbar wortgewandte, verspielte, sinnsuchende und sinnfindende, sprudelnde Texte über das Leben und das... Read more

Here We Go Again

By: Ronald Franklin Saia

Narrated by: Ronald Franklin Saia

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Here We Go Again" evolved from "Heartland Inspirations," "Kentucky Wonder" and "Inspirations Anew For You," continuing my being inspired by life and the desire to lift up others.  Everyone needs an occasional lift from life's challenges which tests our coping ability.  I believe "Here We Go Again" will provide that moment for you. Read more

By the Shoreline

By: Little Stickman

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Spiritually poised in a realm of sanity comes with a mind that continuously travels extensively throughout time. As the heart accompanies, companionship becomes something so precious that words turn speechless. The heartfelt poems written throughout experiences, observations, stories and heartbreaks are the main cause of survival this soul has... Read more

Northern Moons

By: Rob Taylor

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

With fifty new, original poems, Northern Moons emerges as a continuum to Rob Taylor’s previous books. The spiritually-based essence of Taylor’s poetry speaks to the layers of consciousness that compose our soul. Each line is constructed (regardless of content or perceived context) as an inspiration for the reader to engage in a mindfulness... Read more

As Soft as Fire: Collected Poems

By: Upile Chisala

Narrated by: Upile Chisala

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As Soft as Fire collects Upile Chisala’s three acclaimed poetry books -- soft magic, nectar, and a fire like you -- in audiobook form, complete with the author’s reflections on her inspiration and process. 
soft magic, Chisala’s debut collection, explores themes of survival and healing; nectar expands on the topics of growth and renewal despite... Read more

a fire like you

By: Upile Chisala

Narrated by: Upile Chisala

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair—recasting them as opportunities for growth.
 
In this never-before-published collection, poet Upile Chisala grapples with themes of love, loss, and desire. Throughout this third book, she explores her identity as... Read more

In the Lateness of the World

By: Carolyn Forché

Narrated by: Carolyn Forché

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY

“An undisputed literary event.” —NPR

“History—with its construction and its destruction—is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave—a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker

Over four... Read more

Elogio de la belleza

By: Roberto Augusto

Narrated by: Álex Ugarte

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

✔️POESÍA PARA DISFRUTAR DE LA VIDA✔️En este poemario su autor reflexiona sobre la vida, la superación del dolor y la belleza de la naturaleza y del mundo. Es una obra breve, pero intensa, inspirada en Walt Whitman y en los haikús japoneses. Los poemas que conforman este libro transmiten optimismo, alegría por vivir y el deseo de disfrutar de las... Read more

Silencios vivos

By: Nach

Narrated by: Nach

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Silencios vivos es una invitación a convivir en la intimidad de otro. Con estos poemas, recitados por él mismo en este audiolibro, Nach abre la puerta de su peque­ño mundo al público atrevido, dispuesto a volar. Letras que son emoción sincera, cargadas de anhelos, de confesiones y de introspección. El autor vuelve a asomarse a su propio interior... Read more

مجنونة قيس - Majnonat Kayes

By: ابتسام الحمري

Narrated by: Sarah Shalaby

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ديوان شعري تصب كل نصوصه في مجرى الحب والشوق والغربة التي يخلفها غياب الحبيب. وقد يصل شعور الغربة إلى الجنون حيث الضياع واللظى.. اختارت شاعرتنا ابتسام أن تحاكي قيسها وتكون هي ليلاه، كي تجر معه أذيال الخيبة التي تصيب هذا الحب جراء الغيابات الساحقة لهما.. فأحيانا تواسيه في الغربة وأحيانا تجعله هو وطنها الأصلي وأحيانا أخرى تتمرد على الغربة الملعونة... Read more

Hambriento

By: Nach

Narrated by: Nach

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Hambriento es una travesía poética de ida y vuelta, repleta de reflexiones, aprendizajes y sensibilidad. Un río a contracorriente que fluye a borbotones hacia las cimas más altas. Nach escribe urgido por una voracidad de emociones y experiencias que parecen saciar un íntimo vacío. Así emprende, a dentelladas, un viaje por sí mismo con una... Read more

Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?

By: Emma Conway

Narrated by: Emma Conway

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a pyjama-clad woman from Brum,
She's a mostly-happy (sometimes-snappy) mum,
She's written some verse
- it's a little perverse -
and she hopes you find it side-splitting-ly fun!

In her first book, happy-go-lucky YouTuber and Instagrammer Emma Conway explores motherhood in all its glory through the medium of hilarious and uplifting poetry. A... Read more

Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles

By: Alan Titchmarsh

Narrated by: Alan Titchmarsh

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect listen for the green-fingered - hilarious and touching poems on a gardening theme written and introduced by the nation's favourite gardener and presenter of ITV's Love Your Garden, Channel 5's Secrets of the National Trust and with his own show on Classic FM.

From touching poems on the peony, the snowdrop and the sweet pea to... Read more

The Rumi Prescription

By: Melody Moezzi

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet.

Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she... Read more

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

By: Carl Phillips

Narrated by: Carl Phillips

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.

Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know... Read more

O–(ezekiel's wife)

By: C. R. Grimmer

Narrated by: C. R. Grimmer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the Audiobook version of O–(ezekiel's wife), published by GASHER Journal and Press (https://www.gasherjournal.com/product-page/o-ezekiel-s-wife). Judy Twedt, Digital Sound Artist, edited these tracks and added in found and synthesized "sounds of climate change," creating a collaborative poetry album. About the collection: O’s (they/them... Read more

The Madman His Parables and Poems

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Mike Vendetti

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Madman by Kahlil Gibran is a collection of 35 short poems and parables that tell the story of a man who has been stripped of all his illusions and artificial faces, leaving him just with the truth of his life, his observations, and his surroundings. It shows the irony of sanity and its status as a social construct.The audiobook version of... Read more