Poetry audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

By: Kendra DeColo

Narrated by: Kendra DeColo

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore. These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through the lens of pop culture... Read more

Kahlil Gibran: Selected Works

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: John Rayburn

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The words of Kahlil Gibran give his book The Prophet a broad range of inspiration and philosophy. They provide exceptional insight into human desires and understanding. The vivid observations are vibrant with feeling and acceptance of life’s many questions and hopes. One review saluted the story as being untouched by the harshness of life.... Read more

Welcome Song for Baby / Ni Nikamon ‘Tawâw Nipepîmis’

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Christian Down & Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned storyteller Richard Van Camp comes a lyrical lullaby for newborns. Orca Book Publishers is pleased to offer this bilingual book (full text in both English and Plains Cree) in two accessible editions. The audiobook features alternate text descriptions of images, including the cover. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible. Read more

Beethoven Variations

By: Ruth Padel

Narrated by: Ruth Padel

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius, from the author of the celebrated Darwin: A Life in Poems

Ruth Padel's new sequence of poems, in four movements, is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world's greatest composers. She uncovers the man behind the music, charting his private thoughts... Read more

We Sang You Home / kikî-kîwê-nikamôstamâtinân

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful welcome and a thank you to the Indigenous child who brings joy into the parents’ lives.”—School Library Journal In this sweet and lyrical picture book from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world. Internationally renowned storyteller... Read more

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

★ "Van Camp composes a lyrical ode to a newborn child, which is matched in its loveliness by Flett's exquisite, collage-like images of a young one with his or her parents.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for... Read more

The Candle of Crest

By: Demethius Jackson

Narrated by: Demethius Jackson & Vanessa Marroquin

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is not your traditionally written classic epic-adventure. You will instead be immersed into a fully rhyming audio-adventure of magic and mayhem! Featuring a full audio-scape of music and sound effects, The Candle of Crest is unlike any other audiobook you've heard.As Earth's only magical kingdom defends against ruthless invaders, a... Read more

I Had a Brother Once

By: Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: Adam Mansbach

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss

“A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself.”—Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

my father... Read more

La colina que ascendemos

By: Amanda Gorman

Narrated by: Amanda Alcántara & Ilia Calderón

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

LA VOZ DE UNA NUEVA ERA NÚMERO 1 EN VENTAS EN ESTADOS UNIDOS ELEGIDA UNA DE LAS 100 PERSONAS QUE SERÁN MÁS INFLUYENTES EN EL FUTURO SEGÚN LA REVISTA TIME Prólogo de Oprah Winfrey Ante la mirada de un mundo sobrecogido tras la invasión del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos, Amanda Gorman tomó la palabra a continuación del presidente Joe Biden.... Read more