Poetry audiobooks

Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Denis Lavant & Denis Podalydes

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Illuminations ont été publiées en 1886, sous forme de feuilletons, dans la revue La Vogue. Rimbaud a remis ces poèmes à Verlaine lors de leur rencontre à Stuttgart en mars 1875. C'est Verlaine qui s'est occupé de publier ces vers. Il y insère une préface dans laquelle il annonce que ces « ornementations colorées » se composent de « prose... Read more

Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daring new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character and have continued to provide inspiration to people and poets for generations.Leaves of Grass is Whitman's masterpiece,... Read more

Endpoint and Other Poems - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Charles McGrath

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.

The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness.... Read more

Une saison en enfer

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Lorànt Deutsch

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Une Saison en enfer a été écrit en quelques mois, et c'est le seul recueil poétique que Rimbaud a voulu porter jusqu'à la publication. Il avait 19 ans. Read more

Le bateau ivre

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Cédri Zimmerlin, Denis Podalydes, Lorant Deutsc...

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Bateau ivre regroupe les poésies de Rimbaud écrits entre 1869 - il est alors âgé de 15 ans - et 1873. Il s'agit de textes en vers, assez courts, que l'auteur a présentés aux éditeurs ou aux écrivains parnassiens. Read more

John Keats

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his... Read more

Last Poems

By: A. E. Housman

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.
In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly: "I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more." He pulled Last Poems together because his life-long friend, Moses Jackson, was dying and Housman... Read more

Look We Have Coming to Dover!

By: Daljit Nagra

Narrated by: Daljit Nagra

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love,... Read more

If God Is a Woman, Who Am I?

By: Danna Schweitzer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"If God Is a Woman, Who Am I?" Is a collection of short stories and poems that attempt to shed light on the questions concerning our identity in this world in relationship with our creator and our fellow beings. Sometimes one must go in search of the questions before one can seek the answers. If god is not who I envisioned, does that change me? Read more

A Shropshire Lad

By: A. E. Housman

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition. Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil can come to good people, and human beings can find themselves torn deeply by conflicting desires... Read more

Krneta, Greis & Apfelböck: Winnetou Bühler - Abridged

By: Guy Krneta & Jakob Apfelböck

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hier treffen zwei auf den ersten Blick unterschiedliche Künstler aufeinander: der Schriftsteller Guy Krneta und der Rapper Greis. Gemeinsam mit dem Musiker Jakob Apfelböck entsteht dabei weder Rap noch Literatur, sondern beides zuammen: Literaptur. Erzählt wird die Legende von Winnetou Bühler, Sohn der Comic-Zeichnerin Maya Bühler und des... Read more

Mund auf, Wort raus - Abridged

By: Patrick Armbruster, Simon Chen, Tom Combo, Dani...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Land, ein Wort: Poetry Slam in der Schweiz: Seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre lesen auch in der Schweiz Poetinnen und Poeten an Poetry Slams um die Wette. Inzwischen ist der Dichterwettstreit eine Selbst- verständlichkeit im Kulturbetrieb, die Szene so gross wie noch nie. Von Aarau bis Zofingen, in grossen Städten und kleinen Dörfern finden... Read more

Rupert Brooke Collected Poems

By: Rupert Brooke

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Rupert Brooke possessed one of the most amazingly sensitive, amazingly sensual poetic minds of the 20th century. Born into a world swiftly sliding into war, torn between highly idealized, romanticized relationships with men and conflicted, often bitter love for women, he expressed his complex emotions and vivid perceptions in verse of startling... Read more

The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

By: William Butler Yeats

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty of William Butler Yeats' finest poems. Read more

The Very Best of William Butler Yeats

By: William Butler Yeats

Narrated by: Siobhan McKenna

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-four of Yeats' finest poems read by Siobhan McKenna, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Cyril Cusack and Michael MacLiammoir. Read more

A Shropshire Lad

By: Alfred Edward Housman

Narrated by: David Moore

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Shropshire Lad contains 63 poems by Housman which talk about mortality and living life to the full. Read more

The Poetry of Wilfred Owen

By: Wilfred Owen

Narrated by: David Moore

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as one of the leading war poets, Owen's work is powerful and shocking, illustrating the true horror faced by soldiers during the First World War. Read more

The Very Best of Scottish Poetry

By: Various

Narrated by: Frederick Worlock

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

GS Fraser, John Laurie and Frederick Worlock amongst others read a collection of Scotland's finest poetry featuring Robert Burns, William Dunbar, Mark Alexander and Hugh MacDiarmid. Read more

Sir Ralph Richardson reads William Blake

By: William Blake

Narrated by: Ralph Richardson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

William Blake was largely unrecognised during his lifetime but is now considered a seminal figure in the history of poetry of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". Here a selection of his finest work, starting with "And did those... Read more

Richard Burton reads the poetry of John Donne - Abridged

By: John Donne

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The multi-award winning actor reads the finest work of John Donne Read more

Sir Ralph Richardson reads Keats - Abridged

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Ralph Richardson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sir Ralph Richardson reads a selection of Keats' finest works including To Autumn and Ode To A Nightingale Read more

Richard Burton reads the poetry of Thomas Hardy - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The multi-award winning actor reads the finest work of Thomas Hardy Read more

Les fleurs du mal

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Denis Lavant, Eric Caravaca, Guillaume Gallienn...

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

« Le poète est semblable au prince des nuées - Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer ; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher. » L'albatros Read more

The Return of the Prophet

By: Hajjar Gibran

Narrated by: Peter Jacobs

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of the beloved masterpiece The Prophet, Hajjar Gibran -- an ancestral descendant of Kahlil Gibran -- presents a parable of spiritual awakening based on his often heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant life. With its universal themes, personal narrative, and timeless advice, The Return of the Prophet opens the doorway to a new... Read more