Poetry audiobooks
Lullabies
By: Lang Leav
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss. Love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Read more
View audiobookPond Mountain Tales
By: Ed Gentle
Narrated by: Larry Herron
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“Pond Mountain Tales” recalls experiences of the author during his eleven-year stay at Pond Mountain, a two-hundred-acre farm, with his first wife, their three sons, and eight dogs. Close encounters with snakes, blue herons, geese, turkeys, and vultures were a daily experience. Three lakes teeming with fish framed a story of the author's... Read more
View audiobookMemories
By: Lang Leav
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Lang Leav, beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The best of Leav's evocative poetry in a gorgeous package! Read more
View audiobookA Living Friend
By: Robert Bly
Narrated by: Robert Bly & Coleman Barks
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Bly is in beautiful form, reading seven of his own poems from Stealing Sugar from the Castle and Coleman Barks reads some segments from the Shams Tabriz Sayings, as well as Rumi poems.A Better Listen audio production. Read more
View audiobookPoems of the Elder Edda
By: Anonymous
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, ThomaS Landbo, Matthew Posner ...
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Prose Edda, a collection of narrative literature, and its companion, the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and 13th centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex... Read more
View audiobookB
By: Sarah Kay
Narrated by: Sarah Kay
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it is a family tradition waiting to begin. Read more
View audiobookSternenBlick
By: Stephanie Mattner
Narrated by: Dr. Tommi Horwath & Rita Hatzmann
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Gut 50 Autorinnen und Autoren wagen in dieser Anthologie ihre ganz persönliche Rückschau zum Thema: Kindheit und Kindsein. Lassen Sie sich verzaubern! Als ein Ausdruck von Liebe zur Poesie, ist dieses Hörbuch aus der Idee gereift, zeitgenössische Dichter und ihre Gedanken hören zu wollen und entwickelte sich zu einem Treffpunkt an dem... Read more
View audiobookJoy
By: Abigail Santamaria
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis’ shadow, where she has long been hidden, to reveal a powerful writer and thinker.Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis’ memoir A Grief Observed. Now, through extraordinary... Read more
View audiobookTravelling Tinker Man & Other Rhymes
By: David Essex
Narrated by: David Essex
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
In the 70s he was a huge pop star, with Number 1 hits like 'Rock On' and 'Hold Me Close'. In the 80s and 90s he became a star of the stage with lead roles in Godspell and Mutiny! Now comes a wonderful collection of David Essex's poetry and lyrics. Here are nostalgic poems recalling his family's traveller roots, verses filled with memories of his... Read more
View audiobookWilliam Shakespeare: 20 Dramen und Komödien
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Hören Sie die zwanzig berühmtesten Stücke Shakespeares: Die Dramen: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo und Julia, König Lear, Timon von Athen / Die Komödien: Viel Lärm um nichts, Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der Sturm, Was Ihr wollt, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Der Kaufmann von Venedig, Das Wintermärchen, Maß für Maß, Die Komödie der Irrungen, Ende gut,... Read more
View audiobookRed Sox Rhymes
By: Dick Flavin
Narrated by: Dick Flavin & Henry Strozier
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox.A commonwealth institution and popular local television personality who is also the announcer, ambassador, and poet laureate for Fenway Park, Dick Flavin has entertained audiences with his incredible poetic talent and... Read more
View audiobookWriggle and Roar!
By: Julia Donaldson
Narrated by: Justin Fletcher
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Whenever I'm tired of being me
I swing around like a chimpanzee.
Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile and slither like a snake. Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the... Read more
Shuffle and Squelch
By: Julia Donaldson
Narrated by: Justin Fletcher
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Kick your boots off, everyone.
Summer's here and so's the sun.
In Shuffle and Squelch there are counting rhymes and animal rhymes, rhymes to make you shuffle and squelch and clatter and patter, and rhymes to make you gallop like a horse or slide down the banister.
From the fabulous picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt and... Read more
Timon von Athen
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Timon von Athen ist ein reicher Mann. Er hat viele Freunde, doch erkennt er bald, dass es falsche Freunde sind, die nur an seinem Geld interessiert sind. Arm geworden, wendet er sich verbittert ab. Eines Tages findet er einen Goldschatz, und er schmiedet einen blutigen Racheplan... Read more
View audiobookWie es euch gefällt
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Der Herzog ist von seinem Bruder entmachtet worden und hat im Ardennerwald Zuflucht gesucht. Seine Tochter Rosalinde darf am Hofe bleiben, um Celia, des neuen Herzogs Tochter, Gesellschaft zu leisten. Eines Tages werden beide verbannt, und in Männerkleidung suchen sie Herzog Friedrich im Ardennerwald. Gefahren lauern, und auch die Liebe ist... Read more
View audiobookCymbeline
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Cymbeline ist König von England. Seine Tochter Imogen soll Cloten heiraten - doch sie ist schon vermählt, mit Posthumus, dem gebildetsten Manne Englands. Dieser wird verbannt, und schon droht Gefahr in Person von Iachimo, einem italienischen Kavalier… Read more
View audiobookPerikles, Fürst von Tyrus
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Perikles ist bei Kaiser Antiochus in Ungnade gefallen, weil er dessen Schandtat erkannt hat, und so flieht er nach Tyrus. Dort heiratet er Thaisa. Auf See bringt sie eine Tochter zur Welt - und stirbt vermeintlich bei der Geburt. Doch auch Marina, die Tochter, bleibt vom Schicksal nicht verschont... Read more
View audiobookDie beiden Veroneser
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Valentin und Proteus sind Freunde in Verona. Proteus ist in Julia verliebt, Valentin reist nach Mailand, um dort sein Glück zu machen. Er trifft Silvia und verliebt sich in sie. Proteus reist ihm nach und verliebt sich ebenfalls in Silvia. Doch die vergessene Julia gibt nicht auf und reist in Männerkleidung nach Mailand... Read more
View audiobookIch hebe meine Augen in die Welt
By: Alfred Lichtenstein
Narrated by: Barbara Wittmann & Detlef Bierstedt
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Barbara Wittmann und Detlef Bierstedt interpretieren schrille Gedichte und einen grotesken Prosatext des großen Frühexpressionisten Alfred Lichtenstein: Es sind Porträts von Trinkern, grauen Clowns, Irren, Huren und Rummelplatzgestalten, von himmelblauen Exzentrikern, unschuldigen Kindern, parfümierten Pudeln und "eigen schauenden Frauen", von... Read more
View audiobookPoèmes saturniens
By: Paul Verlaine
Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
En 1866 parait Poèmes saturniens, tout premier recueil de Verlaine. Le poète maudit est alors âgé de 22 ans. Le titre évoque les astres et plus particulièrement Saturne, planète de la mélancolie qui inspire le poète dans le premier texte du recueil. Read more
View audiobookChasers of the Light
By: Tyler Knott Gregson
Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to... Read more
The Poetry of Lord Byron
By: Lord Byron
Narrated by: Linus Roache
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron’s poetry. Read by Linus Roache, star of the critically acclaimed film Wings of the Dove, this collection includes She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib, The Vision of Judgment and selections from Childe Harold, The Corsair and Don Juan. Read more
View audiobookThe Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
By: Kei Miller
Narrated by: Kei Miller
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it (‘I never get involved / with the muddy affairs of land'), is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this... Read more
View audiobookDie göttliche Komödie
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Dirk Glodde
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Für Voltaire genoss Dante den höchsten Ruhm, den man als Dichter überhaupt erklimmen konnte. Dieser war nämlich berühmt, ohne das man ihn großartig gelesen hätte. Dantes "Göttliche Komödie" ist in den Schatz der Menschheit mehr oder weniger durch Hörensagen eingegangen. Immerhin haben sich zahlreiche Deutsche an eine Übersetzung gewagt, wobei... Read more
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