Poetry audiobooks

These Hands That Hold The World

By: Xyvah Okoye

Narrated by: Claire Glover

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

These Hands That Hold The World is a collection which deals with mortality, grief, and other matters of life.Through a mix of poetry and prose, Okoye expresses emotions of love and loss in a simple yet vulnerable way, sharing pieces of a broken heart while whispering to the reader that they are not alone.Content warnings for self-harm, suicide,... Read more

Soul Culture

By: Remica Bingham-Risher

Narrated by: Delva Roline

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps

Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as... Read more

There Are Still Woods

By: Hila Ratzabi

Narrated by: Hila Ratzabi

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

There Are Still Woods is a radiant appraisal of life at the precipice of climate crisis and a haunting elegy for all we stand to lose. Through alternating lenses, from the speculative to the spiritual, from motherhood to science to mythology, Hila Ratzabi looks out at our wounded but vibrant planet and the animal experience of living on it.... Read more

Blanca Varela: una retórica del horror y la vanidad

By: Martín Horna Romero

Narrated by: Antonio Monroy

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

El género pictórico vanitas o vanidades era un recurso simbólico usado durante el Barroco europeo para considerar como vano o contingente todo logro humano que no tuviese a la divinidad cristiana como fin último. De esta manera, se desestabilizaron rasgos venerados por la sociedad occidental como la belleza, la riqueza, el reconocimiento, el... Read more

Grandfather's Robin - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grandfather's Robin offers poems about People, Fellow Creatures, Society, Ekphrasis, Scenes and Moods, Survival, and Short Poems. They were written over several years, in response to people seen, read about, or known, and in response to creatures seen, read about, or known. Other poems respond to group and social behaviour, and reflect responses... Read more

Into His Presence

By: Tim Chester

Narrated by: Jonathan St. John

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Collection of Puritan prayers and meditations that will help personal and public prayer.This collection of eighty theologically rich and beautifully written prayers and meditations, adapted from Puritan prayers and prose, will enrich and deepen your prayer life.While retaining the dignity and beauty of the original language, Tim Chester has... Read more

The Malignant Fiend

By: Chantell Newton

Narrated by: Chantell Newton & Mariah Fyock-Williams

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

What fuels desires?Either rage or sex. Observations of delirium ...the things we're not meant to think. Chantell Newton stars in the Malignant Fiend. This audiobook features fictional horror based short stories and poetry. Produced by Hood Metal Records LLC.
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Poesía completa

By: Rodolfo Fogwill

Narrated by: Jorge Gabriel Rivero López

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Toda la poesía de Fogwill reunida por primera vez en un volumen, con prólogo de Arturo Carrera y un libro inédito, Gente muy fea.
Fogwill fue uno de los escritores más irreverentes de la literatura argentina de los últimos cuarenta años. Con una enorme ductilidad para navegar en una multiplicidad de géneros sin perder nada en el camino,... Read more

Petrarch's Canzoniere - Scattered Rhymes - A New Verse Translation

By: Francesco Petrarch

Narrated by: Ed Ashley

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (translated in English as 'Scattered Rhymes') is a collection of 14th century poems famed for their deep exploration of love, grief, spirituality and nature. Written over the course of forty years (approximately between 1328-1368), this collection includes 317 sonnets, 29 canzoni, 9 sestine, 4 madrigals and 7... Read more

For the Record - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection of poems was written during almost thirty years' residence in Hong Kong. Most are on explicitly Hong Kong topics, and reflect the writer's personal experience and knowledge of Hong Kong. Those who have emigrated or who have spent a period of time overseas will empathise with the expatriate experience described. Other poems... Read more

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

By: Miguel de Unamuno

Narrated by: Carlos Manrique

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Miguel de Unamuno is a pillar of the XX century Spanish literature. In this anthology we present a selection of his best poetry. Performed by Carlos Manrique. Read more

Fires Under the Great Neural Sky

By: Shaine Greenwood

Narrated by: Shaine Greenwood

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Written over the course of five years, these poems grapple with purpose and reality from a myriad of existentialist perspectives and themes. Through these poems, we travel through the cosmos, to various mythological settings, and even to our own neurons. If you're seeking to rearrange your grey matter, this is the collection for you. This... Read more

SANTA TERESA DE JESUS

By: Santa Teresa de Jesús

Narrated by: Carlos Manrique

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What can we say about this great mystic thinker, probably the main figure of religious writing along with San Agustín and San Juan de la Cruz. In this production you will find his complete poetry in the voice of Carlos Manrique. Read more

FRAY LUIS DE LEON

By: Fray Luis de Leon

Narrated by: Carlos Manrique

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Fray Luis de Leon is another of the great Spanish mystic writers. Discover the power of his thought and his approach to the universal Christianity and God.In this volume we present his complete poetry, performed by Carlos Manrique, Spain leading actor. Read more

SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ

By: San Juan de la Cruz

Narrated by: Carlos Manrique

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

San Juan de la Cruz is alone with Santa Teresa de Jesús the best of the Spanish mystic poetry. In this volume we present his complete poetry in the voice of Carlos Manrique. Read more

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

By: Miguel De Cervantes

Narrated by: Carlos Manrique

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a unique presentation including the complete poetry by Miguel de Cervantes. Know worldwide by "El Quijote" his poetry is lees know, so here you have the opportunity to discover more of one of the great geniuses of universal literature. Narrated by Carlos Manrique one of young best Spanish actors of our time. Read more

Golden Ax

By: Rio Cortez

Narrated by: Rio Cortez

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award

“Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture.” —Roxane Gay, author of... Read more

Over the Years - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley & Verner Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fifty poems collected in Gillian Bickley’s Over The Years have been chosen by Verner Bickley from her five previously published collections.“Sensitive, serious, sincere and sometimes a little sad...." (Dumitru M. Ion ( Romania), Member of the Arts and Sciences Academy in R. Macedonia, etc.,2014)"Driven by curiosity as a poet but also by... Read more

Moving House and other Poems from Hong Kong - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The old is contrasted with the new, fictional with actual life. Links are made between different cultures, different lives, different experiences. The expatriate life-style of constant movement runs parallel with the title of the book. "Gillian Bickley writes as she responds to everyday events, always with the echo of 'time's winged chariot' in... Read more

Human Emotions

By: Zaighum Sharif

Narrated by: Matthew Fuller

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Each and everyone of us has our own human emotions. Days can be filled with happiness whereas other days can be full of sadness. The uniqueness of one’s emotions can very rarely be understood by others. It is really difficult if not impossible to tell others how you feel or for them to understand how you are feeling. I have tried in this book to... Read more

The Gift of Rumi

By: Emily Jane O’Dell

Narrated by: Lilia Houshmand & Sean Rohani

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An authentic exploration of the real Rumi

As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic... Read more

Idylls of the King

By: Alfred & Lord Tennyson

Narrated by: Bill Homewood

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovers of legends know that this is the finest retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; lovers of literature know that this is the greatest of all 19th- century narrative poems. In Tennyson’s gloriously written tale of swashbuckling feats on and off the jousting field, the honour of maidens, knights, queens and... Read more

Betlehems Stjärna

By: Viktor Rydberg

Narrated by: Klassiska Dikter

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

BETLEHEMS STJÄRNA | VIKTOR RYDBERG'Betlehems stjärna' eller ('Gläns över sjö och strand' ) är en dikt från 1891 skriven av Viktor Rydberg, vilken även har tonsatts av Alice Tegnér 1893. Dikten ingår i romanen 'Vapensmeden', där den dock saknar namn. Titeln 'Betlehems stjärna' förekommer först som rubrik till Tegnérs tonsättning och har sedan... Read more

Song of the Closing Doors

By: Patrick Phillips

Narrated by: Patrick Phillips

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York City subway encounters to memories of pickup basketball games on Fourth Street, a love letter to the past, and to all the relationships and memories our homeplaces hold, from the National Book Award finalist.

“I will consider a slice of pizza," opens Phillips's poem "Jubilate Civitas." "For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both... Read more