Poetry audiobooks

Poppy the Pea

By: Dr.Fuzz

Narrated by: Julia Savill

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Poppy the Pea! Poppy lives with her fellow peas "in the dark and freezy degrees." She dreams of being bold and free to explore the outside world, but one irrational and overwhelming fear stands in her way. Can this sweet little pea ever be bold and break free? Join Poppy as she engages with fear, setbacks, and wise characters on her first... Read more

Testimonial Praises

By: Irma Jean Driver

Narrated by: Dahlia Black

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in part to bring hope to people who are lost, when the words are carefully taken, Testimonial Praises: Up for Grabs awakens readers, touching the hearts of believers and bringing awareness to the mind of sinners.

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The Inspiring World of Ella Rose La Fleur

By: Lori Schneider, MD

Narrated by: Hannah Dere

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the intrigue and wonder of everyday life with this charming story in verse about a precocious dark-eyed, dark-haired little girl.   Six-year-old Ella Rose La Fleur loves singing, dancing, and riding her award-winning pony, Chestnut. She also adores her pets, Jessie and Molly, and her best friends, Mike and Kate, with whom she enjoys many... Read more

Everyday Shakespeare

By: Ben Crystal & David Crystal

Narrated by: Ben Crystal, David Crystal & Hillary Crystal

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen Fry

A cathedral of consciousness - Shakespeare's uncanny insight into human nature finds us, unearthed here. - LionHeart, artist, poet, and BBC Radio London presenter

Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and... Read more

Le Poème de l'Esprit d'Amour

By: Guillaume Coliac

Narrated by: Guillaume Coliac

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ô l'Amour est l'essence éternelle de l'âme ! Il est le carburant qui fait briller la flamme... DIEU, personne ne l'a jamais vu, ou encore nul ne peut voir Dieu et vivre : c'est écrit dans la Bible. Pourtant, la parole de Dieu a été adressée aux êtres humains dans ce livre sacré qui contient les grandes révélations sur l'origine et le destin de... Read more

Buffalo Girl

By: Jessica Q. Stark

Narrated by: Jessica Q. Stark

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In these poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. These... Read more

Maps You Can't Make

By: Mariella Saavedra Carquin

Narrated by: Mariella Saavedra Carquin

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Trauma takes up real space within us, and it can be so difficult to hold. How do we access that place of longing and loss, of fragmented memory and grief? How do we carry it as we walk in the world? There’s no map for this, no clear path through the internal landscape it reshapes, no easy way to make meaning of our lives in that disoriented... Read more

Smile, People are watching

By: Faaiz Mbelizi

Narrated by: Faaiz Mbelizi

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Faaiz Mbelizi is an actor, writer and spoken word artist. This poetry collection is an accumulation of his poetry over the years.In this poetry collection Mbelizi delves deep into the realms of pain and anxiety through vivid verses. A raw and honest representation of the struggles and inner turmoils faced.
Through evocative imagery and metaphors... Read more

Un viaje a solas conmigo, sin ti

By: Ana María Ortega Díaz

Narrated by: Ana María Ortega Díaz

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuando conocí a R encontré en él un pedacito de mí misma que tenía olvidado: la A que se atrevía a hacer cualquier cosa.Con nuestra relación recuperé la aventura, lo extraordinario. Y miré hacia otro lado todas las veces que R no me trató bien, porque me enamoré de una idea: la fantástica y exitosa pareja que podíamos ser juntos.Así, poquito a... Read more

Верш на Свабоду

By: Радыё Свабода

Narrated by: Валянціна Аксак

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Анталёгія арыгінальнай паэзіі, якая гучала на хвалях «Свабоды» штодня ўвесь 2001 год. Уступнае слова: Аляксандар Лукашук. Тэкст чытае Валянціна Аксак, 2022г. Вершы розных аўтараў. (Аўтары — нобэлеўскія ляўрэаты і паэты-выгнаньнікі, самаму маладому — 10 гадоў, найстарэйшаму — 92).
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La luna nueva

By: Rabindranath Tagore

Narrated by: Horacio Lanci

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Madre ¿dónde estaba yo antes de nacer? ¿Dónde me encontraste…?” Estas preguntas parecen, en toda su simplicidad y candor, reunir en sí toda la magia y la ternura de “La luna nueva”, en cuyas páginas Rabindranath Tagore nos comunica, a través del diálogo entre una madre y su pequeño niño, su mundo pleno de pureza y espiritualidad.Si en el arte... Read more

The Prophet

By: Khalil Gibran

Narrated by: Damien B. Davis

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a great book without reading a word. Sit back, relax and enjoy a loving audio experience of profound insights that touch on themes of love, sorrow, self-discovery, freedom and many other interconnecting aspects of life.This audiobook is orchestrated in the spirit of great tales told around a campfire. Atmospheric sounds and... Read more

Just Kidding

By: Martin Pierce

Narrated by: Martin Pierce

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This children's audiobook will have you laughing out loud. There are funny poems about animals, school, weird monsters - in fact anything that is unusual, silly or just plain daft that can be fitted into a rhyme. This is definitely not a book to be missed by anyone under the age of 140 years old with a sense of the absurd. Read more

A Satana

By: Giosuè Carducci

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (Valdicastello, 27 luglio 1835 – Bologna, 16 febbraio 1907) è stato un poeta, scrittore e critico letterario italiano.Carducci è stato il primo italiano a vincere il Premio Nobel per la letteratura. Insieme a Camillo Golgi, è stato il primo italiano in assoluto a vincere tale premio nel 1906. Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Guy Jordan

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

"The Odyssey" is an ancient Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Homer, dating back to the 8th century BCE. It is the sequel to "The Iliad" and focuses on the hero Odysseus's long journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Along the way, he encounters mythical creatures, gods, and goddesses, and undergoes numerous trials and... Read more

Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

By: Sophia Thakur

Narrated by: Sophia Thakur

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In a powerful debut, rising star Sophia Thakur brings her spoken word performance to the page.

Be with yourself for a moment.

Be yourself for a moment.

Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment.

From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference,... Read more

Plantains and Our Becoming

By: Melania Luisa Marte

Narrated by: Melania Luisa Marte

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging—for fans of Jasmine Mans and Fatimah Asghar
 
“We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow feel at home.”
 
Poet and musician Melania Luisa Marte opens PLAINTAINS AND OUR... Read more

Fixer

By: Edgar Kunz

Narrated by: Edgar Kunz

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America.  Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution:... Read more

Counternarratives

By: John Keene

Narrated by: John Keene

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative
fic=on to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. In “Rivers,” a free Jim meets up decades later with his... Read more

The Aeneid

By: Vergil

Narrated by: Susanna Braund

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes
"Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before a translator exceeds the standard that she has set."—A.M. Juster, Athenaeum Review
This is a substantial... Read more

Shine

By: Nadia Iris

Narrated by: Issie Riley

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wondered about the mystery of creation? Do you often feel like there’s more to life than what you’ve been told? There is! Dive deep into the magical stories of love, adversity and adventure. Join the journey of a Sun named Shine as he asks the Very First Question and is presented with a peculiar answer. Follow along with the adventure of a... Read more

We Will Never Forget

By: Gennie de Lange

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

These are the observations of war, seen through the eyes of the Observer, a gentle toy, a mascot, who has accompanied determined men and women, old and young, through the bewildering, realistic experiences of war. The Observer witnesses the lives of ordinary people, their anguish, camaraderie, and hopes. So their sky, flowers, insects, and... Read more

himmelhochjauchzend gedankenvertieft

By: Sarah Marie

Narrated by: Sarah Marie

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn Poetry Slammerin Sarah Marie ein Video über die Wirkung von Instagram auf das Selbstbild der Menschen oder ein Plädoyer für die Liebe online stellt, schauen Hunderttausende zu. Die junge Spoken-Word-Künstlerin weiß, was die junge Generation Z bewegt: auf der Welt, in der Liebe und in ihrem persönlichen Sein. In ihrem Buch... Read more

Domesticated

By: James Domestic

Narrated by: James Domestic

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this often witty, sometimes furious, and sometimes downright surreal collection, James Domestic does - as per usual - whatever the hell he likes, with poetry, prose, and lyrics, all thrown into the mix with abandon. Punk, politics, habit, the nature of work, the environment, nostalgia, aging, and some quintessentially British whimsy, all... Read more