Poetry audiobooks

Edge of a Fantasy and Other Poems

By: Gil Saenz

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this latest compilation of poetry from Saenz, fifty poems about love, hope, peace, nature and meditation are collected for the reader’s enjoyment. Each of these poems is printed in a side-byside nature, with the original English on the left and a Spanish version translated by both the author and his brother (who holds a doctorate in foreign... Read more

Book of Mercy

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in... Read more

Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

Narrated by: Yung Pueblo

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

true poweris livingthe realizationthat you are your ownhealer, hero, and leaderInward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the listener that healing,... Read more

Un Attimo Fa

By: Anthony Marchese

Narrated by: Antonio Marchese

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Una stampa contemporanea di un libro prodotto in precedenza realizzato a mano Read more

Tacones de azúcar

By: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Narrated by: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Premio Sial de Poesía 2009. Un libro para degustar despacio, a lametones, deshaciendo cada verso, cada palabra, cada sílaba: poemas afilados como un tacón y dulces como el azúcar Grabado en español ibérico (España). Read more

A Cruelty Special to Our Species

By: Emily Jungmin Yoon

Narrated by: Emily Jungmin Yoon

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talent.In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women,” women who were forced into sexual labor... Read more

Stranger Music

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen—already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist—was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer–songwriters of the time. Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums,... Read more

Nonsense Songs and Laughable Lyrics

By: Edward Lear

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a verse writer named Lear Who said “in the future I fear That the verses I write be recorded (they might) for all who desire so to HEAR” (R.M. with apologies to E. L.) Edward Lear is justly renowned as a writer of humorous verse. His “Nonsense Songs”were published in 1871 and includes probably his best known and most loved poem “The... Read more

Obra poética

By: Chantal Maillard

Narrated by: Chantal Maillard & Claudia Faci

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

La obra poética de Chantal Maillard reunida en un único volumen y recitada por su autora.  Una obra de Chantal Maillard siempre es un soplo de aire fresco; su obra poética recitada por ella misma es, sin duda, una auténtica maravilla que nos acerca de una manera especial a esta poeta y filósofa y a sus escritos. Chantal Maillard lee en este... Read more

Poems: Reflecting the Truth—Volume One

By: Ernie Hasler

Narrated by: Adam Croasdell

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

This book is a compilation of poems that tell about the human race, the world we are living in, the laws and equality, the government, and freedom. This book also tells us about Yeshua’s teachings and instructions that lead us to question ourselves: Have we followed his teachings? Have we? Read more

Enter, Fleeing

By: Mark Ford

Narrated by: Mark Ford

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter, Fleeing is an enthralling new volume by one of the UK's most distinctive poets. The work gathered here displays Ford's power to amuse and startle, to move and disconcert. Some poems recreate moments from the poet's peripatetic childhood in Africa, America, Asia and the Gulf, while others dramatise anarchic or violent encounters with a... Read more

Jabberwocky

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jabberwocky” is one of the most well-known nonsense poems in the English language. Though full of playful made-up words like “brillig,” “mimsy,” and frumious,” the poem still tells a story. A young warrior faces up against the fearsome Jabberwock, armed with a “vorpal blade,” and comes out triumphant: “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” This... Read more

HeteroSexual Chaos

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Embrace yourself with a rare genre: Poetic Short Stories. Twenty-four poetic short stories, embedded with sparks of life drama and humor. Think through a box, rather than its outside, understanding life fully; with both an inside, and outside perspective. Why restrict your subconscious? Read more

The Dark Between Stars

By: Atticus

Narrated by: Atticus

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.

Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma... Read more

Brown

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Kevin Young

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.

“Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.” —The New York Times

Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way... Read more

Bar Room Brawls

By: Michael Scott Gallegos

Narrated by: Michael Scott

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Gallegos represents the genre of independent writers that follow in the classic vein of story telling. Bar Room Brawls is an eclectic sampling from his latest collection of short stories and poems. The stories address the modern dilemmas of life, occasionally tapping into surreal metaphysical absurdities, yet always nested in a familiar and... Read more

Das musikalische Nashorn und andere Tiergeschichten - Abridged

By: Peter Hacks

Narrated by: Christian Steyer

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Hörbuch mit den schönsten Tiergeschichten von Peter Hacks, gelesen von Christian Steyer, der Stimme von "Elefant, Tiger & Co." Ein Bär geht verkleidet als Förster zum Maskenball, die Katze Isabo raucht wie ein Mynheer und denkt nicht mehr ans Mäusefangen, der Käfer, der sich auf der Wiese sonnt, wird zum Philosophen, und Frau... Read more

Poesía para directiv@s con alma, pero sin tiempo

By: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Narrated by: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Poesía para directiv@s con alma, pero sin tiempo", nace para acercar el mundo de las emociones a la empresa. Para salvarte del estrés y de la vida tan rápida que llevas cada día. Que te salve, también, de la vulgaridad, de la soledad y que te empape de ternura. Yolanda Sáenz de Tejada, autora y narradora de este libro, fusiona el coaching y la... Read more

Elijah

By: A LeRoy

Narrated by: A LeRoy

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dangerous Prophet for Dangerous Times!(Author's Narration)
Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath.
But he is not alone. Embraced by a shapeshifting goddess, counseled by a great angel, he is empowered to call down fire from Heaven!
In the spirit of Dante, Shakespeare, and Homer,... Read more

The Body's Question

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves... Read more

The Dark Interval

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash & Ulrich Baer

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.

“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins

“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The Guardian

Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s... Read more

The Great Poets: Lord Byron

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So... Read more

The Epics Collection

By: A LeRoy

Narrated by: A LeRoy

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dangerous Poet for Dangerous Times!(Author's narration)
Hailed as "an exemplar of epic poetry" (San Francisco Review of Books), Abdiel LeRoy recalls the spirit of Homer, the visions of Milton, the fire of Dante.…
1. Elijah
Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath... But he is not... Read more

Gunther Emmerlich liest weihnachtliche Gedichte u. Erzählungen (Ungekürzt)

By: Verschiedene Dichter

Narrated by: Gunther Emmerlich

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Gunther Emmerlich liest weihnachtliche Gedichte und Erzählungen Read more