Poetry audiobooks

Baltimore Sons

By: Dean Bartoli Smith

Narrated by: Tim Wendel

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of its decline with a sense of grace and hope. With the city of Baltimore as his backdrop, accomplished poet, author, and editor Dean Bartoli Smith offers a wrenching examination of our... Read more

Tratado de los relojes elementales

By: Antonio Merino

Narrated by: Carlos Quintero

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ella lo dijo, y lo dijo delante de todos para que no hubiera dudas: «si me olvidas, te mato». Desde Sanlúcar de Barrameda partió Luis de Salazar sin más fortuna que la puesta, y con los años aprendió los oficios de truhan, vendedor de carne humana, asistente de inquisidores y maestro en el disfraz. Rodeado de lacayos que le limpian la baba y dan... Read more

A Little Souvenir in Poetry

By: Sislyn Peters

Narrated by: Sislyn Peters

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A Little Souvenir in Poetry is a sensible collection of original poems crafted to be lyrical, sensual, rhythmic, funny, and informative. The reader is easily moved by the author's work, which exemplifies a unique writing skill, and evokes various moods and emotions. Read more

4x4

By: Paula Brecciaroli, Juan Carrá, Carolina Bugnone...

Narrated by: Paula Brecciaroli, Juan Carrá, Carolina Bugnone...

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

4 x 4 es una suerte de juego literario diseñado por el realizador sonoro Tomás Borrini para su editorial audible Sonda media, coordinado por la guionista Bibiana Ricciardi. Se trata de una invitación a cuatro autores que escriben cuatro cuentos a partir de una misma carpeta con 10 sonidos. De este modo, cada narración resulta independiente de la... Read more

The Sun and Her Flowers

By: Rupi Kaur

Narrated by: Rupi Kaur

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Rupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of the sun and her flowers, her second #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the debut audio recording of home body.

Divided into five chapters, this volume is a journey through the... Read more

Home Body

By: Rupi Kaur

Narrated by: Rupi Kaur

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Rupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of home body, her third #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was performed and recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the first audio recording of her second collection, the sun and her flowers.

Kaur constantly embraces... Read more

Milk and Honey

By: Rupi Kaur

Narrated by: Rupi Kaur

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Rupi Kaur presents an all-new performance of milk and honey, her #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This new production was recorded in 2021 along with the first-ever recordings of her #1 bestsellers the sun and her flowers and home body, all... Read more

Selected Poems

By: Ai Qing

Narrated by: David Shih, Nancy Wu & Robert Dorsett

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei

One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped... Read more

Przeczucie

By: Płamen Siwow

Narrated by: Dorota Trela

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Płamen Siwow (ur. 1970) – bułgarski poeta, publicysta, gitarzysta, kompozytor, autor tekstów piosenek, członek zespołu muzycznego Toczka BG. Wiele z jego tekstów funkcjonuje przede wszystkim jako piosenki, wykonywane zarówno przez grupę Toczka BG, jak również solowo. Tematyka jego utworów jest różnorodna – opiewa piękno przyrody, zagłębia się w... Read more

Poems: Series One

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Zacharias Prewett

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection Poems: Series One presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Emily Dickinson. It is broken into the four parts Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity and includes 115 poems. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been... Read more

Poems: Series Two

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Laura Atkinson

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection Poems: Series Two presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Emily Dickinson. It is broken into the four parts Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity and includes 161 poems. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been... Read more

Machinations of A Feminist

By: Margaret D. (Kawamuinyo) Gill

Narrated by: Margaret D. Gill, Michelle Barrow, Kathy 'Ife' ...

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A semi autobiographical collection of poetry by an award winning poet, Machinations of A Feminist is a conversation between a Barbadian woman poet and each listener. It is an offering of communion between poet, reader and listener"These poems share the romance the author has with words and her habit of uplifting the local (Barbadian, Caribbean),... Read more

Where Decay Sleeps

By: Anna Cheung

Narrated by: Anna Cheung

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Red across black, the blood moonsmeared her lunar cycle across the nightshedding the sky from scarlet to rust.His gardenawakened
Where Decay Sleeps lays 36 poems on the undertaker’s table, revealing to us the seven stages of decay: pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, livor mortis, putrefaction, decomposition and skeletonisation. Readers... Read more

It’s Fine, It’s Fine, It’s Fine

By: Taz Alam

Narrated by: Taz Alam

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw, honest and heartfelt poetry collection from Taz Alam – for the tough times, the great times, and everything in between. Depressed, but it’s fine. Anxious, but it’s fine. Heartbroken, but it’s fine. ... Read more

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson & Stanley W...

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh & Lolita Chakrabarti

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic... Read more

A BUEN JUEZ, MEJOR TESTIGO.

By: José Zorrilla

Narrated by: Ildefonso Escobar Rubio

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A buen juez, mejor testigo es una leyenda de versos octosílabos de José Zorrilla incluida en su volumen Poesías (1838) e inspirada en la tradición toledana del Cristo de la Vega, que, milagrosamente, declara como testigo del incumplimiento de una promesa de boda. Read more

La Ilusión del Movimiento

By: Alvaro Sangregorio

Narrated by: Alvaro Sangregorio

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Has escuchado recitar a Álvaro Sangregorio? No te dejará indiferente... En este audiolibro, recita sus propios poemas.La Ilusión del Movimiento es el primer libro publicado por Álvaro Sangregorio. En él reivindica la vigencia de la rima y la musicalidad explícita en la poesía contemporánea. La poesía se concibe para ser leída en voz alta, para... Read more

Requeening

By: Amanda Moore

Narrated by: Amanda Moore

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging... Read more

Roaming

By: Lucy Luo

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucy Luo Author, Artist, Curator. Born in Beijing, China. Studied in London, Britain. Lives in NY, America. Published 4 books: Afternoon Tea 2005 (essay) Solo Dancing in Britain 2007 (essay) Roaming The Borders Of Heaven 2007 (poem) Sweet London Night 2011 (novel) Member of China Writers Association Member of The Poetry institute of... Read more

There's a Light at the End of My Muddle

By: Ellen Palestrant

Narrated by: Ellen Palestrant

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You will have fun listening to "There's a Light at the End of My Muddle", read by the author Ellen Palestrant. There are more than seventy, highly original poems, limericks and tongue-twisters in this collection such as My Story is a Hula-Hoop, Slurping Pasta, Colors are a Magic Trick and Thorny Thicket Thistles. All are entertaining,... Read more

La mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage

By: Benoit Pinette

Narrated by: Benoit Pinette

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Comment éteindre ce qui brûle depuis toujours quand nous sommes tous constitués de tisons qui refusent de mourir ? Avec bonté et résilience, Benoit Pinette retourne à son enfance – un pays en soi, une trajectoire – et pose le doigt sur ses instants douloureux, étudie l’équilibre des époques. Il construit de là sa compréhension des glissements... Read more

Muses and Rhymes

By: Dr. Mansur Hasib

Narrated by: Dr. Mansur Hasib

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Your entire family can enjoy listening to this preserved collection of my writings from 1968-1975, from 7th grade to just after high school. Some are poems, some songs, some just thoughts with a rhythmic pattern. I believe these early writings helped me to develop an appreciation for the beauty and inspirational power of the English language and... Read more

15 Japanese Short Stories for Beginners

By: Christian Tamaka Pedersen

Narrated by: Christian Tamaka Pedersen & Miho Araki

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a collection of 15 entertaining and culturally interesting Japanese short stories for beginners and intermediate Japanese learners. The book also includes many unique mystery stories that will stimulate your imagination.This Japanese audio book is not designed only for Japanese language students, but also for those who appreciate... Read more

Shoulder Tap

By: Maurice Riordan

Narrated by: Maurice Riordan

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting... Read more