Poetry audiobooks

Seven

By: Nnemka Agbafe

Narrated by: Kate Leonard

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From a young age we are fed fairytales of princes and princesses from far away lands in a distant and ultimately elusive time and age. But what does that “true love” look like in today’s dystopian society? Lust? Infatuation? Unrequited longing? What’s forever? Love is …. Well, I’ll let you decide. -nn Read more

Gemeinschaftsarbeiten 1957-1962

By: Konrad Bayer & Gerhard Rühm

Narrated by: Gerhard Rühm

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"zusammen nahmen wir von unterschiedlichen seiten aus oder gemäss unterschiedlichen prinzipien dieselben probleme in angriff, erprobten formale möglichkeiten, entdeckten neue methoden und wendeten sie an. die tatsache, dass wirkliche gemeinschaftsarbeiten produziert werden konnten, und zwar als teil unseres programms und nicht nur als... Read more

Der sechste Sinn

By: Konrad Bayer

Narrated by: Konrad Bayer

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Konrad Bayer (1932-1964), früh verstorbenes Mitglied der legendären "Wiener Gruppe" (Achleitner, Artmann, Bayer, Rühm, Wiener), zeigt sich in den Originaltonaufnahmen dieser Audio-Edition wie in einem, in all seinen Empfindungen gesteigertem Leben vor dem Tod. Zu hören ist die Stimme Bayers, eine Stimme von berückender Intensität, in drei... Read more

Metamorphosis

By: Nancy J Nelson

Narrated by: Fran Gregory

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

After the death of her husband, Jay, Nancy wrote poems as a way of expressing her pain and dealing with her overwhelming loss. She combined them with her favorite photos to share her journey through grief. Read more

At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned and the Absinthe-Minded

By: Maria Alexander

Narrated by: Maria Alexander

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bitter herbs. Icy droplets. Saccharine morsels. Sapphire flames. This notorious libation of La Belle Époque swirls and clouds as an opalescent collection of verse so impassioned that to overindulge could be deadly. Read with care — and plenty of sugar cubes.
“Dark, visionary, and at times demonic, the poems in Maria Alexander’s AT LOUCHE ENDS,... Read more

Orgasmic Sinister

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Immerse your Spirit in a world of darkened narrative poetry, blended with insightful and twisted humor. An hourglass is tilted; but, but, death is nothing, compared to possessing of a hunted soul and spirit. Read more

La Vita Nuova

By: Dante

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in alternating prose and poetry, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) is a profound reflection on the nature of love, devoted to Dante’s muse Beatrice. Following Beatrice’s death in 1290, Dante became obsessed with the young Florentine woman, whom he only ever knew from a distance. He believed his love for her was a form of divine love, and saw... Read more

Bits and Pieces

By: Joyce Henefield Coleman

Narrated by: Marie Andrascik

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone’s life is a story. A story of a journey through joy and sadness, winning and losing, good health and illness, love and hate. The challenge is to navigate through life and to remain the person you were meant to be. To embrace life with all its joys and problems and to make it a source for goodness, love, beauty, and happiness for... Read more

Ricocheting Regrets

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Appreciate a rare genre: Twenty-four poetic short stories, embedded with sparks of life drama and humor, based on a true life story. Extreme imagery is used, in some of the stories, to entice further thinking, enabling one to tap deeper, into their inner most subconscious. Better capture underlying life insights... Read more

Funny Classic Tales from Sri Lanka

By: Innofinitimo Media

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny Short Stories audiobook contains two funny classic folktales from Sri Lanka. Andare The Court Jester Mahadena Mutta and Five Pupils We’re sure you’ll enjoy this. All of our titles are available in major online book stores and libraries. Don’t wait any longer. Get the full audiobook now! Read more

ROMANTIC HIGHWAY (ROMANIAN LANGUAGE)

By: Samuel Ciocan

Narrated by: Samuel Ciocan

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

STĂRI SUFLETEȘTI, DORINȚE ȘI IDEI.VERS ȘI CANDOARE.UN ROMÂN PUR IUBEȘTE ȘI URĂȘTE. Read more

Book of Longing

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Leonard Cohen

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Book of Longing has exceptional range. It is clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound.”—New York TimesLeonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los... Read more

Kingdomland

By: Rachael Allen

Narrated by: Rachael Allen

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and flair. The world she creates is suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents. Unexplained violences and strange metamorphoses take shape in the 'glowering dusk'. And yet, all too clearly, we recognise life here on earth, its everyday griefs,... Read more

No toda belleza redunda en felicidad

By: Emilce Strucchi

Narrated by: Victoria Espinola

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

No toda belleza redunda en felicidad es una antología de poetas contemporáneos; y es una reunión de excelentes poetas. Este encuentro de tan variadas voces y escrituras es uno de los modos de convocar a la poesía y al mismo tiempo honrarla. Este reto tiene la intención de una calidad integral de contenido y forma; el modo en que entendemos se... Read more

The IG

By: Hey Jude Saint Jude

Narrated by: Kenneth Toles

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

His first ever book, spoken word artist Hey Jude Saint Jude has compiled a number of his fans favorite poems, poems he has post on his Instagram. These poems follow the ups and downs of relationships, mental illness, faith, and everything in between. Read more

Christian Morgenstern: Galgenlieder - Abridged

By: Christian Morgenstern

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dies Hörbuch versammelt sämtliche Galgenlieder Christian Morgensterns, darunter "Möwenlied", "Die Westküsten", "Der Werwolf", "Das Nasobem", "Das große Lalula", "Das ästhetische Wiesel" und viele mehr. 77 Perlen der absurd-komisch-tiefsinnigen Lyrik Morgensterns. Wunderbar! Read more

Amar(se) es de valientes

By: Alejandro Ordóñez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ordóñez & Tania Naredo

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Debes ser muy valiente para avanzar cuando el corazón se acostumbra a vivir herido. Pelear la batalla contra ti mismo para sanar, para transformar la herida en cicatriz sin dejar nunca de creer en el amor. Amar (a otros o a ti mismo) es de valientes... porque te enfrentas a realidades que no esperas, a dolores que pueden tardar en desaparecer.... Read more

El amor

By: Pablo Marchetti

Narrated by: Gabriel San Filipo

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Quizás sea poco esperado para el lector frecuente encontrarse con un libro de poesía de Pablo Marchetti, como el amor. En realidad, lo raro sería encontrar en la poesía de Marchetti algo distinto de lo que aparece en El amor. Tal como afirma Elsa Drucaroff en uno de los prólogos, "poesía no es belleza. Poesía no es palabra aristocrática o... Read more

El viento comenzó a mecer la hierba

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Mamen Mengó

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson fue una mujer inteligente, rebelde y culta que, en su encierro voluntario en la habitación de su casa en Amherst, construyó una de las obras más sólidas de la literatura universal. Como señala Juan Marqués en la presentación, sus poemas "además de ser escritos, en principio, exclusivamente para la inmensa minoría de sí misma,... Read more

Sincerity

By: Carol Ann Duffy

Narrated by: Carol Ann Duffy

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'Carol Ann Duffy is considered a top poet. But she deserves better. She deserves to outsell most of the novelists on your shelf ' Observer

The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet.

Sincerity is Duffy’s final collection of poems as Poet... Read more

Primero de poeta

By: Patricia Benito

Narrated by: Patricia Benito

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro de poesía que, autoeditado por su autora, escaló las listas de Amazon y ha conquistado a miles de lectores. « Vive, joder, vive.
Y si algo no te gusta, cámbialo.
Y si algo te da miedo, supéralo.
Y si algo te enamora, agárralo.» Primero de poeta son todos los papeles que rellené y quemé, todos los pasos que no di, las vidas que perdí.... Read more

Troilus and Cressida

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of Chaucer's finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks.

Written in the 1380s, it presents Troilus, son of Priam and younger brother of Hector, as a Trojan warrior of renown who sees, and falls... Read more

Soul Looks Back in Wonder

By: Various

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Allyson Johnson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"The selections are uniformly uplifting, with affirming messages about the heritage, strength and dreams of African Americans."—Publishers Weekly

In this compelling collection, thirteen major poets rise in response to the dazzling vistas and emotionally vivid portraits of award-winning artist Tom Feelings.

A unique and moving collaboration that... Read more

On the Healing Road

By: The Poet Dena

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Therapeutic poetry is what the Poet Dena has offered us. It’s a compilation of poems describing living with and healing from depression and emotional trauma. Dena’s work takes us through many significant times in her own life, times that will especially strike chords within many adoptees. There is also a glorious, joyful side to this poetry.... Read more