Poetry audiobooks

The Odyssey (Unabridged)

By: Homer

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme.... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Though mostly known for his plays, Shakespeare also published poetry during his writing career. From 1592 to 1593, an outbreak of the bubonic plague swept through England, killing almost 20,000 people. In January 1593 city officials ordered the theaters in London to shut their doors,... Read more

New Hampshire (Unabridged)

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Robert Frost published New Hampshire, his fourth book of poetry, in 1923. The centerpiece is the long poem “New Hampshire,” an ode to the state. Endnotes on its lines point to shorter poems in the “Notes” section, and the book is capped with “Grace Notes,” a series of short... Read more

Nonsense Books (Unabridged)

By: Edward Lear

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Edward Lear began his career as an ornithological illustrator, becoming one of the first major artists to draw birds from living models. During this period he was employed to paint the birds from the private menagerie owned by Edward Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby and one of Lear’s... Read more

Woman, Eat Me Whole

By: Ama Asantewa Diaka

Narrated by: Ama Asantewa Diaka

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Though James Joyce earned his literary fame mostly through his short stories and novels, he also published several short books of poetry. In fact Chamber Music, a collection of thirtysix short love poems, was his first major independent publication. The title of Chamber Music is said... Read more

قميص يوسف - رباعيات مولانا جلال الدين الرومي

By: جلال الدين الرومي

Narrated by: محمد عمر

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

من أجل عشقك، أريد هجر الروح، من أجلك، أريد هجر العالمَين. أرغب في أن تقع شمسك فوق المطر، لهذا سأذهب للقائك، مثل السحاب. يسأل أحدهم شمس تبريزي قائلاً: ماذا أفعل؟ إن مجال العبارة ضيّق، واللغة محدودة! وكل هذه المجاهدات من أجل أن يتخلّص الناس من اللغة! فيجيبه شمسُ الحقّ: إذا كان مجال اللغة ضيّقًا فإن مجال المعنى واسعٌ! اترك اللغة إلى المعنى. هذا... Read more

Unfuckable Lardass

By: Catriona Strang

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Unfuckable Lardass reverts the patriarchy’s gaze. It began as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel – an egregious demonstration of the framing of women in reductive and sexualized terms ignoring their existence as subjects of their own complex histories. As such, Unfuckable... Read more

Débris du sillage suivi de À la merci de l'étoile

By: Gilles Latour

Narrated by: Gilles Latour

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Débris du sillage Libre mais inquiète, la poésie de Gilles Latour révèle une appréhension devant la dégradation de l'environnement physique, social et politique. Ses Débris du sillage, mots emportés dans les remous d'un vécu, flottent entre mémoire affective et anticipation de l'avenir, dans un ton tour à tour lyrique, ironique et... Read more

El espíritu del agua

By: Rafael Rubio

Narrated by: Victoria Ancera

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Libro seleccionado entre los 100 mejores presentados al Bologna Ragazzi Award en la Feria del Libro Infantil Bolonia 2022. El río que bañaba los campos de hortalizas se ha secado, solo quedan piedras. Pero las comprometidas verduras no se dejan abatir: levantan sus raíces y parten en comitiva en búsqueda del agua. Suben cerros, cruzan... Read more

Poesía reunida

By: Piedad Bonnett

Narrated by: Piedad Bonnett

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Una muy cuidada edición, propia para que en ella se reuna la poesía, de
una de las voces más intuitivas, profundasy sentidas de la actual
poesía colombiana.. Aquí lo que habla es el espíritu y se lo dice al
corazón. Este audiolibro reúne por primera vez toda la poesía de Piedad Bonnett, una obra que comenzó en 1989 con la aparición de De circulo y... Read more

Go

By: Shelley A. Leedahl

Narrated by: Shelley A Leedahl

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

With awe and wonder leading the way, Leedahl’s poems chronicle a journey that speaks of resilience, of joy experienced in simple things, and of the solace in discovering—finally, and late in life—exactly where one belongs. Leedahl’s fifth poetry collection lyrically documents major life transitions and reveals how loneliness—the other... Read more

Poemas de una obsesión

By: Francisca De Benito Ducos

Narrated by: Francisca De Benito Ducos

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Pequeño poemario leído por la autora. Se adentra el los sentimientos mas oscuros del amor y recorre distintas situaciones de desamor: el propio, el ajeno y la ironía de los sentimientos no correspondidos. El amor roto, el amor perdido, atraviesan el poemario con algún atisbo de esperanza. Poemas en verso libre. Autodidacta. Read more

By the Stroke of My Hand

By: Thomas Clelland

Narrated by: Dan Gold

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Within these pages of this little book you find a small collection of Thomas favorite poems. Thomas had a stroke in 0202 resulting in numbness down the whole of the left side of his body and often falls as not able feel the ground beneath his feet. He is still not fully steady on his feet but still ventures out into the community. Thomas’s... Read more

Zoom Rooms

By: Mary Jo Salter

Narrated by: Hillary Huber, John Lee & Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.

In Zoom Rooms, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.
 
The title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings—a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a... Read more

You Are the Loveliest

By: Hans & Monique Hagen

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes our feelings are so big, our dreams and our worries so wide, that we can’t find the words to express them.

How MUCH love we feel; what a new sibling will bring; exactly what it’s like to take a hard tumble, or to want the sun to shine on a rainy day.

These thoughts and questions are explored by Hans and Monique Hagen in poems pitched... Read more

Can We Talk?

By: Lolita E. Walker

Narrated by: Lolita E. Walker

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Can We Talk? Have you ever felt vulnerable or forgotten, experienced joy, triumph or pain, stumbled through heartbreak, lost a loved one, or felt shame? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. These powerful letters and poems are pieces of art curated to shift you, then lift you - higher. They will uproot... Read more

Hindsight

By: Sofiya Ivanova

Narrated by: Sofiya Ivanova

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Hindsight is the first collection of poetry released by Ivanova. In many ways, Hindsight is an autobiography, capturing Sofiya's pre-teen and early teen years, and all the feelings that come with it.It covers topics such as losing your family pet, leaving behind your childhood, wanting to be special and important, your parents being imperfect... Read more

Canopy

By: Linda Gregerson

Narrated by: Linda Gregerson

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from “a contemporary master”*—a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books

Linda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and,... Read more

Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s Vita Nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno
 
A Penguin Classic

Dante was only nine years old when he first met young Beatrice in Florence. Loving her for the rest of his... Read more

The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda

By: Sumita Oyama

Narrated by: David George

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.

Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his ""free-verse"" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his... Read more

Winter Solstice

By: Diana Howard

Narrated by: Kathleen Bond

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

We take our memory for granted. Dementia will steal it in ways most of us could never imagine.
Winter Solstice by Diana Howard burrows deep into the heart-rending poetic journey of a daughter trying to love and help her mother who is slowly losing her memory.
Through poems and vignettes written over a period of 15 years, the reader will enter a... Read more

Deep Wheel Orcadia

By: Harry Josephine Giles

Narrated by: Harry Josephine Giles

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations.

Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station... Read more

River of Rhyme

By: Roger Blakiston

Narrated by: Roger Blakiston

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In River of Rhyme, Roger Blakiston goes deeply into his quest for the meaning of life and connection to source. His inspirational poetry spans a wide variety of topics. He takes you on an exciting and enchanting journey into magical worlds, some fantasy, and others very real. You will encounter mystical realms of Angels, Wizards, Mermaids,... Read more