Poetry audiobooks
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
Narrated by: Warsan Shire
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the... Read more
View audiobookUn Pueblo fuera del Mapa
By: José Hogas
Narrated by: José Hogas
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Y si estoy aquí, No es porque sé caminar o porque al norte Le brillan los ojos, el corazón no sabe de Esas cosas, y esta vez, yo lo he seguido... Aquí estoy Y desconozco la forma en que me pasa, Podría lastimarme horas y horas, Y aunque las palomas, y aunque el tren Ruidoso de mi pueblo intente despertarme, No conseguirían más que atarme De pies... Read more
View audiobookWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Chen Chen
Narrated by: Chen Chen
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRY
WINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD
WINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATURE
ON NPR BOOKS'S LIST OF "POETRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO: 2017'S BEST VERSE"
In this ferocious and tender debut,... Read more
Pink Mist
By: Owen Sheers
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard, Robert K. Benson, Andrew Fallaize...
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat.In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men... Read more
View audiobookLift Off
By: Donovan Livingston
Narrated by: Donovan Livingston
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspirational rallying call about education, race, and the true nature of equality—the Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation speech praised as “powerful” by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Teen Vogue and “inspired” by Justin Timberlake.
In emotionally charged spoken-word poetry, Livingston shares a message of hope and hard truths,... Read more
Poemas de Amor
By: Pablo Neruda
Narrated by: Gerardo Prat
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Cargados de sensualidad y pasión, los poemas de amor de Pablo Neruda son los más célebres de la obra del premio Nobel, cautivando a los lectores con imágenes terrestres y disfrutando de un fuego re-imaginación del mundo. Sobre todo por escrito en la paradisíaca isla de Capri (el entorno idílico de la película ganadora del Oscar Il Postino)... Read more
View audiobookThe Captain’s Verses
By: Pablo Neruda
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain’s Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri―the paradisiacal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri’s natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were... Read more
View audiobookHow Did This Happen?
By: Mary D. Esselman & Elizabeth Ash Vélez
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Karissa Vacker, Erin Bennett &...
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of "aging while female." Read more
View audiobookFaith, Family & Friends
By: Jeff Hauk & Ken Hauk
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This book consists of inspiring poems inspired by real-life experiences.This book is available in E-book, Softcover and Hardcover. For Hardcover orders, please call Toll Free: +1-888-795-4274 or visit www.xlibris.com. Read more
View audiobookMom’s Poetry
By: Kathleen Dunleavy
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful collection of poems written by a mother as she has travelled along the path of her life. This collection consists of some solemn and spiritual works, several Thanksgiving prayer-poems which depict all family members, a passionate 9-11 poem from a hands-on perspective, and three family deaths. Read more
View audiobookBibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen - Abridged
By: Anonymus
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
200 deutsche Balladen in chronologischer Form, beginnend mit dem 17. Jahrhundert, bis ins 20.! Meisterwerke von Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Meyer, Busch, Fontane, Storm und vielen mehr! Ein wahrhaft erschöpfendes Kompendium! Mit dabei: Eine pdf-Datei mit der Titelliste und den Lebensdaten der Autoren. Read more
View audiobookSpace Platform
By: Murray Leinster
Narrated by: Arthur Vincet
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Space Platform is a YA science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. The novel concerns the sabotage of attempts to place a platform in Earth orbit. The book is remarkable for its sense of realism and technical exactitude whilst always being a chilling and breathtaking tale! Read more
View audiobookIslands of Space
By: John Wood Campbell, Jr.
Narrated by: Arthur Vincet
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Islands of Space is a science fiction novel generally credited with introducing the concepts of hyperspace and the warp drive to science fiction. The novel concerns the adventures of a trio of heroes, Arcot, Morey and Wade... "As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below... Read more
View audiobookHöhenangst und Fallsucht
By: Hanife Örki
Narrated by: Hanife Örki
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bekannt aus der Slamszene, gibt Hanife Örki nicht vor wie keine andere das Lebensgefühl einer ganzen Generation einzufangen. Aber sie spricht als ein Teil von ihr. Ob im Buch gedruckt, auf der Bühne performt oder im Audiobook erzählt – ihre Texte wirken auf besondere Weise: sie sind pur, natürlich und persönlich. Die junge Autorin präsentiert... Read more
View audiobookFinding Emily Dickinson in the power of her poetry
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive woman than we thought we knew. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more
View audiobookCuéntame un verso
By: Varios autores
Narrated by: Abbey C., Holden Centeno, Irene G Punto, Karmel...
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Hay algo que tienen que contarte Abbey C, Holden Centeno, Irene G Punto, Karmelo C. Iribarren, Luis Ramiro, Miguel Gane y Mikel Izal. ¿Eres de los que se apunta a los recitales de poesía? ¿Te apetece disfrutar de un buen relato? ¿Te gustaría poder escuchar siempre que quieras a tus autores favoritos? Cuéntame un verso, la antología de textos de... Read more
View audiobookHablemos de Ello
By: Jaime Arenas Saavedra
Narrated by: Jaime Arenas Saavedra
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"Hablemos de ello" es el tercer poemario publicado del autor, convirtiéndose en una obra que marca un antes y un después en la temática de su poesía. Como el mismo expresa, esta obra aborda un aspecto de sí mismo y del ser humano que ha sido interpretado por otras disciplinas del arte y el conocimiento, de forma científica y hasta quirúrgica.... Read more
View audiobookWilliam Shakespeare - Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Roy Macready
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare. There are 24 in number in this first selection. They are in order: Numbers: 18, 33, 11, 3, 5, 6, 29, 10, 22, 2, 4, 7, 1, 9, 27, 8, 30, 116, 34, 54, 12, 66, 77, 60. Read more
View audiobookThe Pied Piper of Hamelin
By: Robert Browning
Narrated by: Roy Macready
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Browning (1812-1889) playright and poet is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse of which he is a recognized master. He also wrote many lighter poems with a humorous touch. Here is one of his best known: “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Read more
View audiobookDie Fabeln von Jean de La Fontaine - Abridged
By: Jean de La Fontaine
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die weltberühmten Fabeln von Jean de la Fontaine in einem Sammelband. Alle 124 Fabeln der ersten sechs Bücher, darunter: Der Rabe und der Fuchs, Die beiden Esel, Der Mensch und sein Ebenbild, Der Rat der Ratten, Der Löwe und die Mücke und viele mehr. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit kompletter Trackliste. Read more
View audiobookLe Testament
By: François Villon
Narrated by: Arthur H
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
L'œuvre principale de François Villon. Digressions sur l'injustice, la fuite du temps, la mort, la sagesse… Villon n'a pas uniquement renouvelé la forme de la poésie de son époque mais aussi la façon de traiter les thèmes poétiques hérités de la culture médiévale qu'il anime de sa propre personnalité. Il prend ainsi à contre-pied l'idéal... Read more
View audiobookBeauty of Morality
By: Pierre Edens Sully
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The author wants to enter the heart of readers more delicately with some poems with the book of Beauty of Morality letting the readers believe that the value of life depends on planned parenthood and other forms of social organization planning for the future in being responsible to bring the children into the world when they could not provide... Read more
View audiobookAll of Us
By: Raymond Carver
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into... Read more
View audiobookFlenters
By: Petru Wessels
Narrated by: Petru Wessels
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Flenters is geskryf oor baie jare – op stukkies papier, agterop kwitansies, aankope lysies, doktersrekeninge. Enige iets wat byderhand was om my gedagtes op neer te skryf. Dit het my opgeval dat al hierdie flentertjies, soos stukkies van ‘n legkaart, my lewensreis weerspieël. ‘n Reis van baie seisoene – die van jong vrou, eggenote, moeder, ouma... Read more
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