Poetry audiobooks

Loving a Woman in Two Worlds with Robert Bly

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In his numerous roles as groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller, and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement," Bly remains one of the most hotly debated American artists of the past half century. In this new collection of poems, the National Book Award-winning poet explores the meaning of mature love in a... Read more

Black Roses

By: Harold Green III

Narrated by: Harold Green III

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles—with this compilation of celebratory... Read more

Emile and the Field

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Kevin Young

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lyrical picture book from an award-winning poet, adapted for audio, a young boy cherishes a neighborhood field throughout the changing seasons. With charming words, this beautiful story celebrates a child's relationship with nature.


There was a boy
named Emile
who fell
in love with a field.

It was wide
and blue--
and if you could have
seen it
so... Read more

unlock your storybook heart

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”

amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents unlock your storybook heart, the third & final installment in her feminist poetry series, “you are your own fairy tale.” this is a collection about being so... Read more

break your glass slippers

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"more forgetting time.
more midnight dances with yourself."

amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents a new companion series, “you are your own fairy tale”. the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about overcoming those who don’t see your worth, even if... Read more

you are your own fairy tale

By: Amanda Lovelace

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An audiobook collection of empowering poetry that proves the only thing needed for a happily ever after is yourself.
Read by author amanda lovelace herself, you are your own fairy tale: the audiobook collection features the three enchanting poetry books that round out the collection: break your glass slippers, shine your icy crown, and unlock... Read more

shine your icy crown

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“make them rue the day they underestimated you.”

amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, “you are your own fairy tale.” this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of... Read more

Present to Him, a Journal by E.C.

By: Eugene St. Martin Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a journal of E. C., the old groundskeeper as he goes about his life going to church, to work, to teaching tennis, to playing tennis, and to visiting his friends. He is a secretary writing the ideas, wishes, prayers, and reflections that come through his life. He thinks there is a reason these ideas and people come through his life.... Read more

Ojos de sol

By: Miguel Gane

Narrated by: Miguel Gane

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

En Ojos de sol, Miguel Gane, el autor de Ahora que ya bailas y La piel en los labios, hace un homenaje al amor y a la singularidad de cada persona que se cruza en nuestras vidas. Es un poemario en el que, de alguna forma, te vas a encontrar. Las margaritas son las flores más comunes de la naturaleza y su belleza reside en su aparente sencillez.... Read more

O Beautiful Dust

By: RW Walker

Narrated by: Avery Arden

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Can we pray together anymore?In this collection of prayers for Lent, RW Walker explores what difference traditional, queer, and Christ-centred common prayer might make in a chaotic and divided world, a wilderness that seems so filled with death and despair. May these prayers fan a flame of hope in our hearts as we walk the wilderness journey of... Read more

Unraveling

By: Brandon Leake

Narrated by: Brandon Leake

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Season 15 winner of America's Got Talent, Brandon Leake, presents his debut poetry collection.  Brandon is the first spoken word poet to compete on AGT and to receive the Golden Buzzer award in the first round, going on to win the entire competition!
From famous spoken word poet, artistic educator, and founder/CEO of “Called to Move” Brandon... Read more

Candide

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Frédéric de Lavenne de Choulot

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Improve your French while listening and appreciating one of the greatest French writers: Voltaire.You can adjust the speed depending on your level in French. You can also buy the book to follow with the transcription as you are listening.The literature has been adapted into useful French words and verb tenses for conversation. With this book,... Read more

Les Trois Mousquetaires

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Frédéric de Lavenne de Choulot

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Improve your French while listening and appreciating one of the greatest French writers: Alexandre DumasYou can adjust the speed depending on your level in French. You can also buy the book to follow with the transcription as you are listening.The literature has been adapted into useful French words and verb tenses for conversation. With this... Read more

De trizas, corazón

By: Albanta San Román

Narrated by: Albanta San Román

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Todo lo que creías, ahora es duda. Todo en lo que confiabas, polvo. Se acabó. ¿Cuánto tiempo podemos fingir que lo tenemos todo bajo control antes de que se destroce en añicos? Cerré los ojos. Me sequé cuidadosamente el lagrimal. No iba a ser cosa de un día. Pero en todo camino hay un día uno. A partir de ese momento de mis... Read more

Aspects Of Love

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Tony Addison

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads off this set of erotic explorations. In The Symposium's philosophic play, he depicts a scene of men cosing together over dinner,... Read more

Unexhausted Time

By: Emily Berry

Narrated by: Emily Berry

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in. Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here... Read more

Dream of the Divided Field

By: Yanyi

Narrated by: Yanyi

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. 

FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & Writers

The... Read more

Earthborn

By: Carl Dennis

Narrated by: Carl Dennis

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely new collection that sounds themes about the fragility of life and our duty to respect the planet in a time of climate change, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work “begins in delight and ends in wisdom” (Carrie Fountain)

The work of Carl Dennis has won praise for its “integrity, its substance, and its seemingly effortless... Read more

When We Were Very Young

By: A. A. Milne

Narrated by: AnnaLisa Bodtker

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic since first published almost 100 years ago, these nostalgic and whimsical poems bring back the innocence of childhood.The poems perfectly enter the thinking of a child. Who mends the soldier's socks? Why does a dormouse keep his eyes shut? Are Brownies tickly? A. A. Milne's observation of children's behavior shows in such poems as... Read more

A Perseverança

By: Raymond Antrobus

Narrated by: Leo Cote

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A Perseverança é o notável livro de estreia do poeta Anglo-Jamaicano Raymond Antrobus. Atravessando história e continentes, estes poemas operam nas entrelinhas, o seu lirismo assombra-nos criando territórios novos e híbridos. A Perseverança é um livro sobre perda, língua contestada e louvor, onde elegias ao pai do poeta vão lado a lado com... Read more

Dances, Towers, Hills and Skies

By: Del Elle

Narrated by: Ava B

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

I spent years avoiding poetry, and what happens? Got me when I least expected it. Born after seeing a tv programme:Pushed by a need to escape from writing that epic. Reflexes to landscapes, skyscapes and flowers:Reflexes to music that stirs the beat. Dances: The first book in The Poetry Collections. Read more

feeling e feio

By: Danai Mupotsa

Narrated by: Eduarda Mondlane

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

feeling e feio foi maioritariamente escrito entre 2016 e 2018, apesar de parte dos poemas terem sido previamente publicados de alguma forma. A antologia junta vários status e locais por onde Danai Mupotsa passa, como filha, mãe, professora catedrática e escritora. Destes lugares, muitos dos poemas tentam abordar sentimentos difíceis sobre o que... Read more

Christopher Logue: War Music

By: Christopher Logue

Narrated by: Christopher Logue

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

War Music is a dramatic poem based on Homer’s Iliad. Logue worked on it for more than forty years and it was left incomplete at his death in 2011. At the time of this recording it was divided into three parts: Kings, The Husbands, and War Music, the last of which is further divided into three sections: Patrocleia, GBH, and Pax. War Music later... Read more

Tearing Petals of Beauty

By: Bailey C. Weber

Narrated by: Melanie Taylor

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetry is about empathy, imagination, observation, and about internal and external truths. These works focus on a person's relationship with nature, others, and self, through depicting hope, love, memory, shame, immortality, acceptance, faith, happiness, confidence, passion, recognition, diversity, perseverance, forgiveness, vulnerability, and... Read more