Poetry audiobooks

Encouragements

By: Betsy Pritchett

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

You will read pure and simple right from the heart little poems to encourage you. To lift your spirit, heart and mind. They will soothe your troubled spirit. They will give you something to think about as you read them. Read more

Songs of a Sourdough

By: Robert W Service & Vanessa Grant

Narrated by: Vanessa Grant

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bard of the Yukon ~ Banker, Hobo, and Klondike PoetA downloadable PDF of Klondike Gold Rush illustrations is available on the Resources page at https://BookHip.com/FTCLVRTRobert William Service was born in Lancashire, Engand in 1874. His mother was an heiress and his father a bank cashier. He was the eldest of 10 children.When Service was 4... Read more

Comment nous sommes nés

By: Carole David

Narrated by: Carole David

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ils forment une «parade clinquante», ce sont «des armes dangereuses, un baiser / à retardement». Enfants réels ou allégoriques, ils disparaissent sous nos yeux. Pour les attraper au moment crucial, Comment nous sommes nés déploie ses phrases amples, ses vers durs, monnaie qui brille au fond de la fontaine. Suspendus entre ciel et terre, entre... Read more

Consegnati al silenzio

By: Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi

Narrated by: Roca-Rey Blas

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Un poeta di oggi, "consegnato al silenzio" nella babele assordante del mondo, riporta in vita voci e storie: dagli archibugieri del '600 fino al nonno e al padre, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi gioca con la storia personale e collettiva come un apprendista stregone, nuovo Prometeo o Frankenstein armato solo di parole, tra la malinconia e il riso, il... Read more

Out Of The Shadows Of Shame

By: Elexcia Smith

Narrated by: Elexcia Smith

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is for everyone. Everyone has had ups and downs. We all have had laughs and cries. We’ve had our good days and bad days. This book is to let people know that you can get back up, even when you fall. Even if you feel this is the worst thing you have ever done. I have been there and done that. Yeshua loves us even through our mess. Read more

Desiderata

By: Ali

Narrated by: Ali

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the flowing tides of galloping quest,we have set eyes on each otherthen lost our sight,over and over, until we learnedto forget the chase. Desiderata is a fairy tale, and epic poem, cosmic in its scope. It is the tale of two lovers who are cast out of their ideal realm by a jealous sorcerer. Born into our world, the man searches timelessly... Read more

If Men, Then

By: Eliza Griswold

Narrated by: Eliza Griswold

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity

If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous... Read more

War Music

By: Christopher Logue

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.“Your life at every instant up for― / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,” writes Christopher... Read more

Del amor y del olvido

By: Dario Jaramillo

Narrated by: Paco Valdovinos

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Del amor, del olvido es en el fondo un inventario de las distintas fases o formas del amor, sobre las que Jaramillo Agudelo reflexiona con una pasmosa clarividencia. Read more

Más allá de mis canciones

By: Andrés Suárez

Narrated by: Andrés Suárez, Ana Viñuela & Javier Portugués (...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Más allá de mis canciones reúne quince letras de canciones, los relatos de las semillas que las inspiraron y tres letras inéditas del cantautor gallego. Más allá de las canciones hay una historia, un momento, una sensación... Aquella tarde que se escapó, el tren que no llegaba nunca o la noche infinita en la que nos sentimos eternos. En este... Read more

Space and Time Magazine Issue #135 - Abridged

By: Angela Yuriko Smith, Elsa M Carruthers, Alessan...

Narrated by: Ryan Aussie Smith, Linda D Addison & Angela Yur...

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The final issue of the year comes when the nights in the Northern Hemisphere are at their longest and coldest. It’s at this time that fiction is needed the most. Against the backdrop of darkness, we gather close and whisper tales to entertain and inspire—and to remind ourselves that dawn will return.Welcome to issue #135. In these pages are the... Read more

Love Poems for People with Children

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children.

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People such a hit, John Kenney is back... Read more

Wing

By: Matthew Francis

Narrated by: Matthew Francis

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied... Read more

# Wuhan

By: Sophia Behal

Narrated by: Sophia Behal

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

#WUHAN“Empowering Poems and Pros-a about feelings and such…”No doubt we were all afraid of an epidemy. The award nominated audiobook deals mainly with the fears poeple in Wuhan had to live throughduring early February 2020 when no one knew if covid-19 is as deadly as SARS.Find some alarming and soothing words for your soul. And please let's wear... Read more

Love Poems for Married People

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People takes the poetic form, turns it upside down and leaves it in the... Read more

Tomorrow's Woman

By: Greta Bellamacina

Narrated by: Greta Bellamacina & Robert Montgomery

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling poetic meditation on motherhood, female identity, ennui, and love by Greta Bellamacina, London-based poet, actress, filmmaker, and model.

In Tomorrow's Woman, Greta Bellamacina's bold, exploratory voice combines the vivid imagery of French surrealism and British romantic poetry with a modern, first-person examination of love, gender... Read more

Nadie sale ileso del amor

By: Alejandro Ordóñez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ordóñez

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Nadie puede decirte cuándo te tiene que dejar de doler. Es un proceso, tómate tu tiempo para volver a sonreir. Con un estilo muy particular, Alejandro Ordóñez presenta las tres facetas del enamoramiento a partir del dolor: amor, desamor y amor propio, y sumerge al lector en un proceso de reconstrucción emocional. Cuando algo tan fuerte se... Read more

Fond Farewells

By: Rebecca Trowbridge

Narrated by: Rebecca Trowbridge

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ease the heartbreak when saying farewell.Fond Farewells is an award-winning collection of four illustrated poem stories that explore different moods of goodbye: Leaving and hoping for the best, Leaving on a trip then returning, Moving away and keeping in touch, and Saying a very final goodbye.Every story, however, has a positive thought to help... Read more

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men

By: Martina Evans

Narrated by: Martina Evans & Colin Still

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for... Read more

Reflections of Life

By: Richard Azael Martinez Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Rain in my mind. Thinking of a beach, Anywhere I can relax And soak my feet. Maybe you already know What I mean. The water is warm. We can watch the sun and then the moon, no demons to defeat. The norm is freedom. Richard Azael Martinez Jr. has seen his share of challenges throughout his lifetime. In his first compilation of poems, he... Read more

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United StatesIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from... Read more

Works and Days

By: Hesiod

Narrated by: Victor Craig

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Works and Days’ is a didactic poem of some 800 lines composed by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The poem deals with daily life and work, interwoven with allegory, fable and personal history. It also serves as a farmer's almanac, through which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts, and as a compendium of advice for... Read more

Rhonda Gowler Greene Children's Collection

By: Rhonda Gowler Greene

Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Andrew Finn McGill & Sheila Hart

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook collection includes everyday favorites from celebrated children’s author Rhonda Gowler Greene:Jonah and the Great Big FishJonah’s disobedience landed him inside a big fish! And there he had time to think and pray. Children will feel the waves and hear the splash as Jonah sinks “down and down and down” into the belly of the fish.... Read more

The Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

Narrated by: Hala Alyan

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." —LitHub

For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith—winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting,... Read more