Poetry audiobooks

Lifescapes

By: Thomas Nelson

Narrated by: Ann Wroe

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"A lyrical, radiant memoir." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewAnn Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after... Read more

Forest of Noise

By: Mosab Abu Toha

Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.

Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for... Read more

Darkling

By: Catherine Hyde

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Prize-winning poet and artist Catherine Hyde celebrates the magic of the night from dusk till dawn as she follows the owl’s journey in a gorgeous gift book of full colour paintings.

I turn
to the old orchard
where she hunts:
a ghost glimmering
sweet heart of the moon.
Swooping between trees,
a beating clock of claw and feather,
hush winged, in half... Read more

Poems for Every Season

By: Enid Blyton

Narrated by: Heather Long

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This gorgeous collection of nature poems is an exciting celebration of the natural world and its wonders from Enid Blyton, the world's best-loved storyteller.

From birds in May and August flowers to green trees in November and summer seaside walks, explore the enchanting worlds of animals, birds, trees and plants throughout the year in verse.

This... Read more

Be Holding

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award
Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry
Winner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry

Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode... Read more

The Secret of You

By: Iain S. Thomas

Narrated by: Iain S. Thomas

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the long-awaited follow-up to his bestselling collection, The Truth of You, poet Iain Thomas explores the unseen forces that shape our inner experience.

A collection of over 200 pieces of poetry and prose, The Secret of You focuses on the thoughts and feelings that we might not share and have trouble expressing, the things that we need to let... Read more

Paper Boat

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Margaret Atwood

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age

Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.

In pieces that are at... Read more

Bringing the Shovel Down

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The... Read more

If Today Were Tomorrow

By: Humberto Ak'abal

Narrated by: Michael Bazzett & Magdalena Kaluza

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“My language was born among trees,it holds the taste of earth;my ancestors’ tongue is my home.”—from “The Old Song of the Blood”A legacy of land and language courses through the pages of this spirited bilingual edition, offering an expansive take on the internationally renowned work of Humberto Ak’abal, a K’iche’ Maya poet born in the western... Read more

Sho

By: author

Narrated by: Douglas Kearney

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY
Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining... Read more

Phantasmagoria

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Chris Coxon

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Phantasmagoria, Lewis Carroll's longest poem, was first published by Macmillan and Co., London, in 1869. Written in seven cantos, it tells the tale, in quintains, of a gentleman called Tibbets and his experience conversing with a phantom. This amusing "epic" takes us through their initial fear of each other, a fierce debate over the goings-on of... Read more

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

By: Robin Coste Lewis

Narrated by: Robin Coste Lewis

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A genre-bending exploration of poetry and human migration—another revelatory expedition from the National Book Award–winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. • Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a... Read more

Call Me Al

By: Wali Shah & Eric Walters

Narrated by: Wali Shah & Eric Walters

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ali is an eighth-grade kid with a lot going on. Between the pressure from his immigrant parents to ace every class, his crush on Melissa, who lives in the rich area of town while he and his family live in a shabby apartment complex, and trying his best to fit in with his friends, he feels like he’s being pulled in too many different... Read more

Pieces of Mee

By: Anexis Matos

Narrated by: Sandra Gayer

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Unleash your inner teen, fangirl, and your best and worse parts in this debut poetry collection.The cringe of being a teenage girl. Blindness in all its glory and challenge. The fantastic parts of fandom. The power of stories. From reflections to a tragic love story of Death and their priestess, a poem is waiting to become your favorite. Read more

The Keelie Hawk

By: Kathleen Jamie

Narrated by: Kathleen Jamie

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, Kathleen Jamie.

The Keelie Hawk is a landmark collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. For the first time, Kathleen Jamie has brought her astonishing lyric talent to the language of her homeland, with outstanding results. The Keelie Hawk is a deeply resonant collection written in Scots,... Read more

The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings

By: Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman

Narrated by: Jolie Taylor

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

40 fun poems that explore big feelings and emotions. This whimsical journey through verse and illustrations can help children recognize and understand their big emotions. From the imaginative minds of Brandon Dorman, renowned illustrator of Goosebumps, Land of Stories, and Fablehaven, and Booktok creator Jolie Taylor comes a whimsical... Read more

The Prophetess

By: Chelan Harkin

Narrated by: Chelan Harkin

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful retelling and continuation of Kahlil Gilbran's The Prophet, this book of prose poetry examines life's deeper meaning and spirituality with the Divine Feminine as a guide.

The Prophetess is a modern take on Kahlil Gibran’s classic 1923 book, The Prophet. The beautiful verse explores the power and timeless wisdom of the Divine Feminine.... Read more

Songs for the Land-Bound

By: Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Narrated by: Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s luminous debut seeks out ways of coping in a complicated age. Exploring the constraints and anxieties of midlife in the midst of climate breakdown, of motherhood in a period of personal and planetary vulnerability, these poems speak to the persistence of nature, creativity, and love: necessary sources of hope and beauty,... Read more

Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

By: Dara Barrois/Dixon

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***

Highly anticipated poems from beloved contemporary poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier).

In her latest collection, Dara Barrois/Dixon brings generous attention to the things we love—be they animals, books, skyscapes, movies,... Read more

Marie Corelli's Collected Poems

By: Marie Corelli

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Corelli is best known as a novelist, but was always a poet at heart, composing on her strongest passions, whether for love, nature, God, or country.This volume collects poems from across her bestselling books and across her career, curated by Brenda Vyver, her her 'companion' of 40 years, who she left everything to when she died, and who... Read more

Beautiful Chaos

By: Jessica Urlichs

Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.

Upon becoming a mother, poet Jessica Urlichs was... Read more

Bridges

By: Mike Blake

Narrated by: Mike Blake

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridges: Rivers of traffic.
Bridges are all about us now in the modern world.
"I have have written this Poem 'BRIDGES - Rivers of Traffic. ::
Bridges are all about us now in the modern world, but have been around for a long time.
They've been getting built since ancient times, to ford rivers and cross continents by making roads AND rivers... Read more

Motherlands

By: Weijia Pan

Narrated by: Weijia Pan

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist... Read more

The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

Narrated by: Wendy Cope

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. With additional poems from Wendy Cope's Collected Poems. Read by the author. In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of... Read more