Poetry audiobooks

For Aged Men

By: Leon J. Alexander

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Then came a time to build my shattered life. I had my legal work, of course, but that was not enough. I rafted for a week down Colorado River rapids. The scenes and feelings evoked there gave birth to river poems presented here. At that time too, I wanted back the home life I’d abandoned recklessly. The love poems written at that time reflect... Read more

Flèche

By: Mary Jean Chan

Narrated by: Mary Jean Chan

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and... Read more

Chinese Classic Tales Bundle

By: Innofinitimo Media

Narrated by: Jim D Johnston & Aida-Maria Boiesan

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first volume of a series of three Chinese Classic Tales audiobooks. The audiobook series contains the following six titles: Bamboo and the Temple Turtle The Cave of the Beasts The Shapeshifter Panther Talking Fish The Golden Nugget The Silver Fox In this volume, we are giving away the two popular Chinese classic tales, “Bamboo and... Read more

Pickles of Love

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph Batte

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

We have been here before, surroundings are familiar. They are crashing flicks of love into pieces. We all know, love is a rugged series of crafty waves, meant to provide calmness. But, but, it resorts to butchering anything alive.Pour yourself a hot cup of water from the Mediterranean, mix in dead dried leaves or seeds, quenching your lust, and... Read more

Goethe

By: Ritchie Robetson

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: "Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times . . . because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man."

In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work... Read more

Gilgamesh Retold

By: Jenny Lewis

Narrated by: Jenny Lewis & Colin Still

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language – emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure... Read more

Doar trăiri. Versuri

By: Adrian Moroșan

Narrated by: Adrian Moroșan

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Poezii pentru toți despre sentimente de dragoste, ură, tristețe, vulnerabilitate, patriotism și multe altele. Cel puțin câteva dintre aceste poezii vă vor aminti de emoțiile pe care le-ați simțit cel puțin o dată în viață. Acest volum combină poezii scrise într-un stil clasic cu poezii scrise în stil contemporan și se referă la sentimentele care... Read more

Homespun Mercies

By: DJ Hill

Narrated by: DJ Hill

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

My aunt once told me she dreamed her house/Had a secret room, one which held everything/She loved most, poet DJ Hill writes. This debut collection throws open a door to the "secret room" all of us keep inside ourselves. Hill examines "what life requires" of us, along with the ways real lives work, in an arresting juxtaposition of music and... Read more

A Guide to Men

By: Helen Rowland

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio book is about series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist. Read more

Old, Old Willow Tree

By: Vernon Campbell & Linward Campbell

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Old, Old Willow Tree It was a very sad day in the magical land of Floss Children had vanished from their homes, every single child was lost Their parents looked high and low, then all around Not a... Read more

Surge

By: Jay Bernard

Narrated by: Jay Bernard

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought To You By Penguin.

The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard.

Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020.

*Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018*

Jay Bernard's powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive, tracing a line between two significant events in... Read more

Modigliani and Nefertiti, the Wheel of Life!

By: Iliyan Yurukov

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The reconstruction and comparison of the model’s forms in the portrait and face image, in connection with new discoveries in science and archeology, has aroused some interest in the funeral cult and its supernatural techniques. Continuum, plastic, and graphics of African art. It was a leap to understanding the image of Nefertiti, its unusual... Read more

Pratinidhi Kavitayein Kedarnath Singh

By: Kedarnath Singh

Narrated by: Parvez Gauhar

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

धरती और आकाश की तरह, अग्नि और वर्षा की तरह, प्रेम और करुणा की तरह , गाँव और नगर की तरह केदारनाथ सिंह की कविता में शब्द और अर्थ हैं. उनके अपने शब्दों में वह काशी की तरह है, सभ्यता की स्मृति, उसका जीवन और उसकी समीक्षा. ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित और देश विदेश की अनेक भाषाओं में अनूदित केदारनाथ सिंह भारतीय सभ्यता और काव्य का उजला नक्षत्र है. Read more

How to Read a Book

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Kwame Alexander

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Reader Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander narrates the audiobook version of his How to Read a Book, a poetic journey about the experience of reading.Find a tree—ablack tupelo ordawn redwood will do—andplant yourself.(It’s okay if you prefer a stoop, like Langston Hughes.)With these words, an adventure begins.... Read more

A Piece of Good News

By: Katie Peterson

Narrated by: Katie Peterson

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet.

In those days I began to see light under every
bushel basket, light nearly splitting
the sides of the bushel basket. Light came
through the rafters of the dairy where the grackles
congregated like well-taxed citizens
untransfigured even by hope.... Read more

The Blue Clerk

By: Dionne Brand

Narrated by: Dionne Brand

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself.

On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the... Read more

Ossuaries

By: Dionne Brand

Narrated by: Dionne Brand

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. She leads a solitary... Read more

women are some kind of magic

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

ALL THREE VOLUMES OF AMANDA LOVELACE’S POETRY IN ONE AUDIO COLLECTION—READ BY THE AUTHOR AND GUEST CONTRIBUTORS!

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace’s “women are some kind of magic” series is now available in one amazing audio collection!

the princess saves herself in this one:

Winner of the 2016... Read more

the mermaid's voice returns in this one

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace, Janina Edwards, Soneela Nankan...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid’s voice returns in this one—the third and final installment in her “women are some kind of magic” series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and 13 guest poems from leading voices in poetry such as Nikita Gill, KY Robinson, and Orion... Read more

Поэтома Таахоаси Сергей Цимбаленко

By: Сергей Цимбаленко

Narrated by: Сергей Цимбаленко

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Считая, что поэтический дар даётся свыше: от Самого Первого Поэта, который является первоисточником поэзии в целом, автор этой книги намеренно отказывается от традиционных поисков поэтического вдохновения, облекающих слова в образ действительности, какую знают и понимают — поэт намеренно ищет свои строки в пространстве откровения, которое не... Read more

Elia

By: Elia Abu Madi

Narrated by: Mahmoud Fahmi

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyrical texts for theatre and the life of the Egyptian vernacular poet Nazim Noor DIN, his voice cast poet Amir about loving people and patriotism. Elia Abu Madi was a Lebanese-born American poet. Lyrical texts for theatre and the life of the Egyptian vernacular poet Nazim Noor DIN, his voice cast poet Amir about loving people and patriotism.... Read more

Ghona

By: Hazem Nour Eldin

Narrated by: Hazem Nour Eldin

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyrical texts for theatre and life by the Egyptian vernacular poet Nazim Noor Eldin, casting with his voice a collection of poems about loving people and patriotism. Read more

Lines Off

By: Hugo Williams

Narrated by: Hugo Williams

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen and write this deeply moving new collection of poetry - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. He navigates assuredly from thoughtful reminiscences of childhood and accounts of the war, through... Read more

The She Book

By: Tanya Markul

Narrated by: Tanya Markul

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Crafting together the power of words and womanhood, writer Tanya Markul has written a completely unique poetry collection fit for the phenomenal readers of today.

In Tanya's words, "May we raise the bar for how we live our lives. May we ridiculously increase the amount of peace, play, creativity, beauty, love, and joy in everything we do. May we... Read more