Poetry audiobooks

A Cemetery for Holes

By: Tom Prime & Gary Barwin

Narrated by: Tom Prime & Gary Barwin

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Cemetery for Holes, poetic language bends and breaks, resists and reforms under the stress of family trauma. Consensual reality shifts with nonconsensual harm. It is this history of violence which is ultimately, confronted, fought against, and overcome. While engaged in this struggle, the poems also strive to rebuild, to console and to... Read more

Me, You, Then Snow

By: Khashayar Mohammadi

Narrated by: Khashayar Mohammadi

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi is a collection of poetry woven from dreams, memories and deep-seeded longing, a collection of poetry that ranges from ambiguously addressed love-letters, to ekphrastic poems for arthouse cinema, to pieces written near midnight when the day’s experiences rush back into view. Though working in diverse... Read more

The Untranslatable I

By: Roxanna Bennett

Narrated by: Roxanna Bennett

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In unmeaningable, her previous Trillium Poetry Award winning book with Gordon Hill Press, Roxanna Bennett renovated the North American disability poetics canon via her queer fusion of invisible and visible disability identities. The Untranslatable I builds on Roxanna's acute sense of form and cripping of myth by establishing a more reflective,... Read more

I know something you don't know

By: Amy LeBlanc

Narrated by: Amy LeBlanc

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection of folklore and femininity. With fairy-tale lucidity and fluid voice, the poems in this collection weave through the seams between story and fact. This debut collection is alluring and noxious like hemlock, foxglove, and blooming wildflowers. Read more

Saturn Peach

By: Lily Wang

Narrated by: Lily Wang

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, “There are things I never want to know but always know. Every day I live with them. Every day I live. I am like a... Read more

The Garden

By: A. F. Moritz

Narrated by: A. F. Moritz

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book centers on the South Central Los Angeles “riot” of 1992 in response to the... Read more

El acercamiento de la mujer cactus y el hombre globo

By: Rayden

Narrated by: Ana Valenciano & Rayden

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

¿DE QUÉ LADO ESTÁ TU CORAZÓN? La primera novela de David Martínez Álvarez, RAYDEN, es un canto al valor de lo diferente. Una historia de amor a golpe de extremos. Un volcán despierto. DESCUBRE AL ESCRITOR TRAS LAS CANCIONES «No sé qué fue antes, si la canción o la novela, pero gracias a la mujer cactus y al hombre globo por acercar posturas. En... Read more

A Kiss from Mommy

By: Eve Heidi Bine-Stock

Narrated by: Alicia Pendry

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

The tender messages in this book differ from every other book about “mommy’s kisses.” Through rhyme which doesn’t miss a beat, we see the many ways a little girl’s mommy uses kisses to teach, coax, soothe, encourage, play and convey a myriad of other expressions of love. This story is also unique in showing the way a mother’s loving kisses are... Read more

Guárdame en ti

By: Raúl Zurita

Narrated by: Raúl Zurita

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Raúl Zurita es uno de los poetas vivos más deslumbrantes de la lengua española POR EL GANADOR DEL PREMIO INTERNACIONAL DE POESÍA CIUDAD DE GRANADA FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Zurita es un referente indiscutible de las letras chilenas y una de las más grandes voces de la poesía contemporánea. Esta selección a cargo de Ignacio Echevarría recorre los... Read more

Eine Liebesgeschichte in unvollkommenen Versen

By: Kris Felti

Narrated by: Sandra Steinbach

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Diese Liebesgeschichte in unvollkommenen Versen erzählt vom Straucheln, Verlieren, vom Lieben und von Selbstzweifeln. Für jeden Menschen sind das die Begleiter, die mal mehr, mal weniger ein Stück des Lebens mit ihm gehen. Dabei hinterlassen sie ihre Spuren, im Herzen und auf der Seele, die manches Mal nicht mehr verheilen. Wären unser Herz und... Read more

Emotions felt to the bone

By: Kunal Roy

Narrated by: Kunal Roy

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Emotions. They drive us forward, striving to achieve the unthinkable.But they can also drag us down, tear us apart, and leave us unwilling to barely lift our heads.Well, I've experienced both sides of this spectrum. And in my first-ever full-length audiobook, Emotions Felt to the Bone, I share these journeys with you in the form of poetry.Some... Read more

Judas Goat

By: Gabrielle Bates

Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Stellar . . . with great humanity, grace and precision." —Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast

Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this... Read more

Don't Bite the Apple, Eve

By: Kimolee Eryn

Narrated by: Kimolee Eryn

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't Bite The Apple, Eve is a book of prose, poetry, musings, statements of my beliefs, hopes and experiences. It shares a delicate combination of past darkness and future light through stories of self, family, love and faith. Read more

Yellow Rain

By: Mai Der Vang

Narrated by: Mai Der Vang

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this staggering work of documentary and poetry, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the US abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as "yellow rain,"... Read more

Studies in Smoke

By: Charles Edward Fremuth

Narrated by: Matthew Fuller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Studies in Smoke is not fiction. The shared event is actual and the resonance real. So is this.
This poetry remains faithful to traditional form. It is true to life and to living simply while thinking too much.
It is true to the cycle of uneasy, never settled sentiments that prescribe no moral, no message, no mysticism. In plain language and the... Read more

Poésies, contes et nouvelles du Québec

By: Divers auteurs

Narrated by: Jean Faubert & Ghislaine Paradis

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Dans cette époque matérialiste où nous vivons, pour sauvegarder notre capacité de rêve, d’enthousiasme et d’imagination, ne pourrions-nous pas nous réfugier dans un « Ailleurs » ? , celui du monde enchanté de l’harmonie poétique et musicale, l’une des formes d’expression les plus anciennes et les plus spontanées, indispensable à la pensée.... Read more

The Prophet

By: Khalil Gibran

Narrated by: James Held

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

I go with the wind, people of Orphalese, but not down into emptiness; And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love, then let it be a promise till another day.” The beloved prophet Almustafa (meaning “The Chosen One”) has lived within the city walls of Orphalese for twelve years. He has walked among the people and formed a deep... Read more

Det är vackrast när det skymmer

By: Pär Lagerkvist

Narrated by: Klassiska Dikter

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

DET ÄR VACKRAST NÄR DET SKYMMER | PÄR LAGERKVIST"Det är vackrast när det skymmer" är en dikt skriven av Pär Lagerkvist och finns med i diktsamlingen 'Kaos' från 1919. Den handlar om skönheten i det skymmande ljuset och hur det kan få oss att känna oss förlorade och ensamma. Dikten beskriver också hur det skymmande ljuset kan ge en känsla av hopp... Read more

Valon pohja

By: Sari Vuoristo

Narrated by: Johanna Kokko

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mihin koulukiusaaminen voi pahimmillaan johtaa? Eletään 1970-lukua. Roihuvuoren koulu tekee syysretken, joka päättyy surullisemmin kuin kukaan olisi voinut odottaa. Yksi koulun oppilaista löytyy vedestä elottomana. Virallisesti kuolema nähdään onnettomuutena, mutta osa oppilaista tietää, millaiset tapahtumat tragedian taustalla todellisuudessa... Read more

The Book of Common Courage

By: K.J. Ramsey

Narrated by: K.J. Ramsey

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with extra audiobook-exclusive poems.The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life. Beloved author and therapist K. J. Ramsey invites you to journey word-by-word through Psalm 23 to experience how the Good Shepherd... Read more

Relations

By: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Narrated by: Tshego Khutsoane & Anthony Oseyemi

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in language, identity,... Read more

Decade of the Brain: Poems

By: Janine Joseph

Narrated by: Janine Joseph

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident.

The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover—physically and mentally—in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when “before” crosses... Read more

Unsung: Poems

By: Arunoday Singh

Narrated by: Arunoday Singh

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsung, Arunoday Singh’s first volume of poetry, presents a collection of his most popular work alongside new material, where he delves inwards and probes questions of love, loss, longing-everything that ails the human heart.He has amassed a large, involved following on Instagram, where he shares his poetry in handwritten calligraphy under the... Read more

When We Were Very Young - Winnie-the-Pooh Series, Book #2 - Unabridged

By: A.A. Milne

Narrated by: Sara Nichols & Kevin Theis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"When We Were Very Young" is a book of poetry for children by the legendary British author A.A. Milne and marks the first appearance of the "silly old bear" who would soon become a worldwide sensation: Winnie-the-Pooh.
In these poems, the narrator - a young boy named Christopher Robin (after Milne's own son) - navigates the world of... Read more