Poetry audiobooks

La calma después de mi tormenta

By: Javi Guillamón

Narrated by: Rocío Fuentes

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Las primeras letras de este libro tienen algo más de diez años. Me encontraba inmerso en un cuadro de ansiedad generalizada y escribir lo que sentía era la única manera de sentirme libre. Por desgracia, ese amago de libertad duraba lo que el lápiz entre mis dedos. Con el paso del tiempo, contrario a lo que yo esperaba, nada mejoró. Las crisis de... Read more

The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Julie Fowlis, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn, Ch...

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a... Read more

Clouds are like People

By: Imani Lewis

Narrated by: Imani Lewis

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Clouds are like People is a collection of poems by national bestselling author Imani Lewis. It takes you on a mental journey as she compares the weather to everyday struggles such as heartbreak, depression, and love.Also enjoy 10 bonus poems from her previous release, Lunar Thoughts: A Poetry Book. Read more

Topsy-Turvy

By: Charles Bernstein

Narrated by: Charles Bernstein

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio version of acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein's most expansive and unruly collection to date is read in inimitable fashion by the author. It features poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of “covidity,” as Bernstein calls it in one of the book’s most poignantly disarming works, is characterized... Read more

One Morning—

By: Rebecca Wolff

Narrated by: Rebecca Wolff

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesPoet, novelist, and Fence founder Rebecca Wolff’s internal monologue made external in poetry is uncanny. Her musical and darkly funny fourth collection, One Morning—, spans language, culture, art history, love, passion, grief, consumerism, environmental devastation, and the ekphrastic experience of pop and high... Read more

The Cloud Corporation

By: Timothy Donnelly

Narrated by: Timothy Donnelly

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesTimothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, the long-awaited second collection by Columbia University professor and poetry editor of Boston Review, is an absolute tour de force, fully investing itself in the possibilities of language and intelligence—by way of a traditional and abiding faith in poetry—to illuminate the... Read more

Talkativeness

By: Michael Earl Craig

Narrated by: Michael Earl Craig

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesMichael Earl Craig furthers his existential, Lynchian leanings with masterfully composed new poems. He has borrowed the everyday and returned it defamiliarized, dark, and droll. Readers are ushered out of their contemporary bustle and into the intimate viewing room that is Craig’s cinematic fourth collection. Read more

If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep

By: Joe Wenderoth

Narrated by: Joe Wenderoth

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesWhether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection, If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep, resonates with his signature intellect and disturbing humor. He is at once an aesthete and an iconoclast who brings inventive force to American... Read more

Cantar de cantares de Salomón

By: Fray Luis de Leon

Narrated by: Hector Amenara

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro El Cantar de los Cantares fue incorporado a la Biblia como el más bello poema de amor vivido por el rey Salomón y la hija del Faraón, acompañados por el coro de sus compañeros. A mediados del siglo XVI fray Luis de León tradujo el original hebreo, palabra a palabra, atendiendo solo a la «corteza de la letra», convencido de que cuanto... Read more

Etruria

By: Rodney Koeneke

Narrated by: Rodney Koeneke

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los Angeles"Melding images of natural timelessness with appearances from contemporary culture, Koeneke's collection is easily enjoyed by the well-seasoned bard and poetic neophyte alike."—BookslutEtruria is a diverse collection of poems featuring found language, ancient Latin, sitcom stars, even Marianne Moore, unified by a... Read more

Thunderbird

By: Dorothea Lasky

Narrated by: Dorothea Lasky

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los Angeles"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."—Julia Bloch, Bitch"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her... Read more

Vida en Marte

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

En Vida en Marte, reconocido por el New York Times Book Reviewcomo uno de los poemarios más destacados del 2001 y galardonado en 2012 con el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer de Poesía, Tracy K. Smith imagina una banda sonora para el universo.

Su poesía, con referencias tomadas de David Bowie y de la ciencia ficción, acompaña a los hallazgos y fallos... Read more

How Far You Have Come

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes 6 audiobook-exclusive poems!In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays invites you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as experiences of reconciliation, unity, and hope.Popular... Read more

24 Pages and other poems

By: Lisa Fishman

Narrated by: Lisa Fishman

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesLisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other—whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions of lyric unfold, in this most unconventional elegy, by means of... Read more

Language Arts

By: Cedar Sigo

Narrated by: Cedar Sigo

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesLanguage Arts, like Cedar Sigo, is playfully spontaneous. Sigo uses poetry as a way to record his own adventures as a reader, traveler, lover, poet, friend, and he welcomes the reader to share the experience. The pleasure he gets in writing these poems is infectious, and the resulting collection is absorbing for its... Read more

Thing Music

By: Anthony McCann

Narrated by: Anthony McCann

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesThing Music is full of flesh, of creatures tangled in their worlds. Marked variously by the desert and coastal landscapes of Southern California and the intersections of phenomenology and anarchism, these poems are porous bodies, traversed by light and noise. Read more

Избранные стихотворения

By: Осип Мандельштам

Narrated by: Вадим Максимов

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

В аудиокниге представлено около 200 стихотворений из различных книг и сборников. Тематически стихотворения объединены в циклы: - Камень; - Стихи 1930-1937 годов, включая цикл Армения; - Tristia; - Из книги Новые стихи; - Стихи 1921-1925 годов; - Стихи разных лет. Бонус трек - три стихотворения в исполнении автора. В свое время (Петроград, 1918)... Read more

Творения

By: Велимир Хлебников

Narrated by: Вадим Максимов

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Велимир Хлебников - уникальное явление в русской культуре. Поэт, прозаик, теоретик и исследователь искусства, мыслитель, математик, орнитолог, он во многом опередил свое время. Его гениальные прозрения не укладывались в рамки современной ему науки, гениальные стихи - в рамки существовавших литературных течений, мифопоэтическое мировоззрение - в... Read more

Борис Годунов

By: Александр Пушкин

Narrated by: Б. Добронравов, М. Яншин, П. Массальский, А. Ст...

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Радиопостановка в исполнении артистов МХАТа СССР им. М. Горького. По одноименной трагедии А. С. Пушкина. "Вчерашний раб, татарин, зять Малюты, зять палача и сам в душе палач…" — так говорит Александр Пушкин о Годунове словами боярина Василия Шуйского, одного из героев трагедии. Погрузитесь в то далекое Смутное время и узнайте как... Read more

Belonging

By: Cherie Burbach

Narrated by: Cherie Burbach

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Belonging (Poems) explores the ups and downs of relationships and the universal need we have to be loved and valued. Artist and poet Cherie Burbach explores the themes of nearness, everlasting love, and kinship. Read more

Ein Klangbuch der Liebe, Romantische Nacht

By: Khalil Gibran, Hans Otte, Rainer Maria Rilke, W...

Narrated by: Heidrun Gärtner & Daniel Friedrich

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Schauspieler Heidrun Gärtner und Daniel Friedrich lesen eine Auswahl schönster Liebesdichtung von Shakespeare über Rilke und Gibran bis Kaléko. Wo Worte nicht ausreichen, spielt der Pianist Markus Kreul ausgewählte Stücke von Chopin, Liszt, Gershwin und anderen. Read more

More Beasts for Worse Children

By: Hilaire Belloc

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This book of thirteen silly rhymes about strange animals is sure to delight and confuzzle its young listeners.


'More Beasts for Worse Children', a collection nonsense verse for children, was written by English-French writer, historian and satirist, Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953).


Poems in order:


1. More Beasts for Worse Children - Introduction


2. The... Read more

Slug

By: Hollie McNish

Narrated by: Gemma Cairney & Hollie McNish

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to the audiobook for an exclusive interview with Hollie and her good friend, radio presenter Gemma Cairney
Hollie has also included a special poetry reading in memory of her grandmother, and an exclusive preview of poems from her next book

'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG

'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE... Read more

Sky of Whales

By: Shoji Yoshikawa

Narrated by: Katy Anderson

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetry (Nature) Whales in the skyPeople were watching the whales swimming in the sky...until they truly understand its meaning... Read more