Poetry audiobooks

Empyrean Realms

By: Taimur Awan

Narrated by: Matthew Fuller

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This unique collection of poems explores religion, mysticism, and love, spiritual transcendence and the quest for the divine, devotional and theological themes, and traditional love poetry, in a lyrical and accessible style and grounded in literary tradition. Read more

Cuando tiembla el amor

By: Alejandro Ordóñez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ordóñez

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuando tiembla el amor nos derrumbamos desde dentro y caemos hacia afuera. Se nos cae el mundo encima… pero siempre hay esperanza. Una perspectiva vulnerable a los embates del amor. Cuando parece que todo se cae en pedazos, ¿qué es lo que podemos esperar del futuro? Cuando tiembla el amor es una mirada a las inseguridades de cuando un amor es... Read more

Intimidades - Abridged

By: Bomfim Cavalcante Carneiro

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

40 poemas de amor onde a intensidade das intimidades amorosas só aos amantes é dado entender. Poemas onde o autor se expõe sem as peias de qualquer clausura pessoal. Poemas escritos para quem sabe que o amor é, talvez, a principal razão da existência de qualquer mortal. Read more

Inferno - Dante Alighieri

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: various

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. 
Track List:
01 Bk 1, Inferno: Canto I - Canto V02 Bk 1, Inferno: Canto VI - Canto X03 Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XI - Canto XV04 Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XVI - Canto XX05 Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXI - Canto XXV06 Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXVI - Canto XXX07 Bk... Read more

Dorothy Parker's Men I'm Not Married To - Unabridged

By: Dorothy Parker

Narrated by: Sara Nichols

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of observations about the male of the species from one of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, "Men I'm Not Married To" is a series of descriptions of nine men, all of whom Parker managed to avoid accompanying down the aisle.
Some longer, some very short, each of these descriptions shows Parker's full range of... Read more

Ansteckend

By: Antje Remke

Narrated by: Antje Remke

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Lockdown mit der Ungewissheit war auch für Antje Remke nicht einfach. Als hochsensibler Coach beobachtet sie genau und fühlt alles sehr intensiv. Sie hat für sich kreativ schreibend einen Weg gefunden, mit den vielseitigen Schwierigkeiten klar zu kommen. Einerseits beschreibt sie Beobachtungen, den Mangel und ihre Sehnsüchte.... Read more

Liebe in Zeiten der Follower (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

By: Max Richard Leßmann

Narrated by: Max Richard Leßmann

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Richard Leßmann postet seit Jahren ein Gedicht pro Tag auf Instagram (@maxrichardlessmann) und wird dafür von mehr als 90.000 Follower*innen frenetisch gefeiert. Der Musiker und Podcaster hat mit seiner Lyrik einen Safe Space geschaffen in einer Welt, in der sich doch eigentlich kaum noch jemand sicher fühlt. "Wenn man die Welt nur noch... Read more

LVOE.

By: Atticus

Narrated by: Atticus

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time since he began writing, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a look behind the mask as he embarks on a powerful journey inward in search of love, peace, and acceptance.
Even if you’ve never heard his name, you’ve probably met someone with his words tattooed on their skin or heard them... Read more

Pasar inadvertido

By: Benito Taibo

Narrated by: Benito Taibo

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Antídoto para el olvido, la poesía es un faro que alumbra lo que corre el peligro de perderse en la cotidianidad, en las horas que nos arrastran sin clemencia. De ahí que la búsqueda de la felicidad sea una hazaña, y la poesía el medio para que tal empeño no se pierda en el caudal de los días que se suceden sin remedio. Benito Taibo nos invita... Read more

Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

Narrated by: Ilya Kaminsky

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award; finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award; finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; winner of the National Jewish Book Award; finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize; and a... Read more

Nocturne

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetry of the night Read more

Flecos del Espiritu

By: Julia Martinez

Narrated by: Belen Penayo

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sin lugar a dudas, Flecos del Espíritu surge de un anhelo personal de compartir una vez más un poco de la insondable sabiduría que los seres humanos hemos recibido durante siglos y que ha quedado plasmado de distintas maneras. Como las imágenes presentadas en este libro, las obras de Johfra Bosschart nos brinda una enseñanza esotérica de los... Read more

Vän, i förödelsens stund

By: Erik Johan Stagnelius

Narrated by: Klassiska Dikter

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

VÄN, I FÖRÖDELSENS STUND | ERIK JOHAN STAGNELIUS'Vän, i förödelsens stund' är en sexton rader lång dikt av Erik Johan Stagnelius, skriven på elegiskt distikon. Från denna dikts slutrad kommer de berömda orden "Natten är dagens mor" och "Kaos är granne med Gud". "Natten är dagens mor" anspelar på Natt (mytologi) som är mor till Dag (mytologi).-Om... Read more

Herbsttag im Kastanienpark

By: Hypnowelten

Narrated by: Michael Gorka

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In dieser schönen Traumreise gehst du durch einen wunderschönen Park und erlebst, mit allen Sinnen, die fantastisch kunterbunte Herbstlandschaft. Genieße und entspanne. Read more

Casual Conversation

By: Renia White

Narrated by: Renia White

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, Renia White’s debut poetry collection pushes against state-sanctioned authority and societal thought while ruminating on Black joy.
Renia White’s debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what’s being said, what isn’t, and where it all come from. From her... Read more

Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep

By: Mehr Afshan Farooqi

Narrated by: Mehr Afshan Farooqi

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in Agra in the closing years of the eighteenth century. A precocious child, he began composing verses at an early age and gained recognition while he was still very young. He wrote in both Urdu and Persian and was also a great prose stylist. He was a careful, even strict, editor of his work who took to... Read more

Very Close to Pleasure There's a Sick Cat (Unabridged)

By: Shakti Chattopadhyay

Narrated by: Arunava Sinha

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In... Read more

Der Kuschelraum

By: Hypnowelten

Narrated by: Michael Gorka

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In dieser schönen Traumreise sollst du dich einfach nur geborgen und geliebt fühlen. Genieße, in einer wohligen Umgebung, das wunderschöne Gefühl geliebt zu werden. Read more

Things That Happen - And Other Poems (Unabridged)

By: Bhaskar Chakrabarti

Narrated by: Arunava Sinha

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s-perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning the rise of militant leftism, the spread of crippling poverty across India, the war in... Read more

Wyspa (DO)Nikąd

By: Ilona Jaworska

Narrated by: Joanna Domańska

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Wszystko, czego pragniesz, jest na wyciągnięcie ręki, a jednak wciąż odczuwasz wewnętrzną pustkę? Właśnie o takim stanie ducha opowiada zbiór wierszy Ilony Jaworskiej. Bohaterka lirycznych mikroscenek błąka się po współczesnym świecie konsumpcji, nadmiaru, nieistotnych relacji i pozornych rozmów. Oprócz demaskacji negatywnych aspektów... Read more

A Gateway Has Opened

By: Liam Blackford

Narrated by: Liam Blackford & Gillian Bickley

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Gateway Has Opened is a poetry collection by Hong Kong-based poet, LIAM BLACKFORD, containing 36 missives on truth and reality, anger and rage, complexity and change, and power as manifested in people, corporations, governments, borders and cultures. The poems inhabit a chaotic and psychedelic world where water flows into the sky, nightclubs... Read more

Spaziergang im Wald

By: Hypnowelten

Narrated by: Michael Gorka

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In dieser schönen Traumreise gehst du in einem wunderschönen Wald spazieren. Erlebe eine einzigartig schöne Reise mit all deinen Sinnen und genieße diesen schönen Moment. Read more

Scars and Stars

By: Jesse Thistle

Narrated by: Jesse Thistle

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.

Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is... Read more

Beyond Carcosa

By: Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Edgar Allan...

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit.”— An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce“Direct me, I beseech you, to Carcosa.”— An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce“Strange is the night where black stars rise, / And strange moons circle through the skies / But... Read more