Poetry audiobooks

Der Mensch und das Meer

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Das dichterische Hauptwerk Baudelaires handelt vom Großstadtmenschen und dessen Ennui, einer mit Widerwillen, Unlust und Verdruss verbundenen Entfremdung gegenüber dem Dasein. Read more

Aurora Leigh - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrated by: Diana Quick

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick. Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de... Read more

Neon Aliens Ate My Homework

By: Nick Cannon

Narrated by: Nick Cannon

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Nick Cannon, entertainer extraordinaire, debuts his poetry book for children.Nick Cannon---the unstoppable entertainer, comedian, actor, and musician---was inspired to write Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems as a way to combine the worlds of poetry and hip-hop. These two mediums have shaped Nick... Read more

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Caroline Kennedy

Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Viola Davi...

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it...All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words". Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in... Read more

Introducing George The Poet

By: George the Poet

Narrated by: George the Poet

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The title is Search Party – the idea being that we’re all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.’

A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm – George The Poet is the voice of a new... Read more

Life’s Rhymes for Our Times

By: B. D. Mullins

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about a passion for writing. The poems contained herein are a selection of many which I have written. They are a variety of many places of the mind and in our times. Throughout the years I have been in contact with some special people and some special places. I have been offered a rare opportunity to be a part of recording things as... Read more

Valentines

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators, Susan Anspach, Stephanie Bea...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic love poetryComposed by many of the world’s best known and most celebrated poets—including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, and others—Valentines spans not only the ages, but the full range of passionate expression of love in all its forms and... Read more

T.S. Eliot reading poems

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: T.S. Eliot

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sleep problem is the number one problem for a growing number of men and women in our country. American worker productivity is high and continues to rise. According to a cross-national study released earlier this year by the International Labor Organization, American workers are the most productive in the world. This very high productivity at... Read more

Les fables de La Fontaine, l'intégrale

By: Jean de la Fontaine

Narrated by: Valérie Théodore

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

" Je me sers d'animaux pour instruire les hommes ". Les trois recueils des Fables de la Fontaine font le plus souvent intervenir des animaux anthropomorphes pour amener à une morale juste et pleine de sagesse. Read more

The flowers of Evil

By: Baudelaire

Narrated by: Stuart Walker

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Fairies" is a classic folk tale by Charles Perrault. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was often mistaken for her mother, so like her was she both in nature and in looks. Both of them were so disagreeable and arrogant that no one could live with them. The younger girl, who was a true likeness of her father... Read more

Intuitions

By: Karl Kevin Smith

Narrated by: Gabe Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I like to observe and think before I write.
I try to be as creative as I can be when I do this. And I try to keep it real.
It is because I believe in conveying my thoughts
in that manner. Read more

"Der Zauberlehrling"

By: Eberhard Esche

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brillanz, Schärfe und Gegenwärtigkeit, die nichts gemein hat mit platter Aktualisierung, kennzeichnen Eberhard Esches Interpretation klassischer deutscher Balladen und Gedichte. Esche zieht den Zuhörer einvernehmlich, ja zutraulich in den Text, um ihm unversehens den Boden geläufiger Deutungen zu nehmen, spricht Gefälliges ungefällig,... Read more

Diesem Vaterland nicht meine Knochen

By: Peter Hacks

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Esche beherrschte virtuos den Wechsel vom Eleganten ins Freche, vom Groben ins Zarte, vom Strengen ins Verspielte, vom komischen in den hohen Ton. Diese CD ist ein besonderer Leckerbissen für die Freunde von Esches Vortragskunst. Das lyrische Werk von Peter Hacks ist vielgestaltig. Nach dem zuletzt erschienenen Band der Liebesgedichte ("Heile... Read more

Das Schöne an der Liebe

By: Gisela Steineckert

Narrated by: Gisela Steineckert

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Schöne an der Liebe ist, daß es sie gibt. Wer nicht furchtbar geliebt hat, hat nicht herrlich gelebt. Liebe kann ein Heimweg sein oder in Welten führen, die man besser nicht gesehen oder wenigstens früher verlassen hätte. In der Liebe liegen uns die richtigen Worte auf der Zunge, aber einen Augenblick zu spät heißt, eine Ewigkeit vertun.... Read more

Faust I+II - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Fred Düren, Jörg Gudzuhn & Dieter Mann

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mephisto und Faust - Goethes Faust I und II als Zweierbeziehung Eine der bedeutendsten, in jeder Hinsicht spektakulären Rollen Fred Dürens war der Faust in der legendären Inszenierung von Adolf Dresen und Wolfgang Heinz im Jahr 1968. Aus der Frage, wie Düren den Faust wohl heute spielen würde, entstand der Plan, der Auffassung von einem jungen... Read more

Antología poética - Abridged

By: Jorge Debravo

Narrated by: Estudios Centroacústica

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jorge Debravo es uno de los poetas más reconocidos, publicados y estudiados de la literatura costarricense. Esta antología en versión audiolibro compila algunos de los poemas más representativos de su obra. De su obra poética se ha destacado su creatividad, su fe en el ser y en los valores humanos, su poder comunicativo a partir de un lenguaje... Read more

Poetry Please

By: Various Poets

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Anton Lesser

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.

The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its authority and always fresh in its vivid rendering... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could do it better." — Wall Street Journal

Robert Fitzgerald's... Read more

O, What a Luxury

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In his second collection of poetry (the first 77 Love Sonnets) Keillor writes—with his characteristic combination of humor and insight—on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily life. Keillor’s verses are charming and playful, locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human. Read more

The Inferno of Dante

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart & Louise Glück

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon... Read more

Meisterwerke erotischer Dichtung - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Jürgen Goslar

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meisterwerke erotischer Dichtung: Über die Lust und Wollust in der Verskunst der Dichter! Die erotischsten, zärtlichsten, wollüstigsten, aber auch lustigsten Gedichte aller Zeiten! Mit Werken von Walter von der Vogelweide, Giovanni Boccaccio, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wilhelm Busch bis hin zu Frank Wedekind! Unnachahmlich... Read more

Growls and Utterances

By: Bart Wolffe

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of poetry exploring themes to inspire and provoke. Read more

Ramayana

By: Valmiki

Narrated by: Sita Ramamurthy

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical retelling of one of the most important Hindu texts. Read more