Poetry audiobooks

La Vita Nuova

By: Dante

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in alternating prose and poetry, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) is a profound reflection on the nature of love, devoted to Dante’s muse Beatrice. Following Beatrice’s death in 1290, Dante became obsessed with the young Florentine woman, whom he only ever knew from a distance. He believed his love for her was a form of divine love, and saw... Read more

Ricocheting Regrets

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Appreciate a rare genre: Twenty-four poetic short stories, embedded with sparks of life drama and humor, based on a true life story. Extreme imagery is used, in some of the stories, to entice further thinking, enabling one to tap deeper, into their inner most subconscious. Better capture underlying life insights... Read more

Ossuaries

By: Dionne Brand

Narrated by: Dionne Brand

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. She leads a solitary... Read more

The Blue Clerk

By: Dionne Brand

Narrated by: Dionne Brand

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself.

On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the... Read more

Goethe

By: Ritchie Robetson

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: "Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times . . . because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man."



In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work... Read more

Sparks of Phoenix

By: Najwa Zebian

Narrated by: Najwa Zebian

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As the phoenix emerges from its ashes, Zebian emerges ablaze in these pages, not only as a survivor of abuse, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understand, reclaim, and rise above a history of pain. The book is divided into six chapters, and six stages of healing: Falling, Burning to Ashes, Sparks of Phoenix,... Read more

Every Word You Cannot Say

By: Iain S. Thomas

Narrated by: Iain S. Thomas & Roshina Ratnam

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

A special, dramatized audiobook version read by the author and Roshina Ratnam.

**I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, “this is beautiful,” when no one else can see what you see. Or, “Here, this... Read more

O Positive

By: Joe Dunthorne

Narrated by: Joe Dunthorne

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction. Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret - the 'lounge of our suffering'. Often, he catches us off-guard: a 'whiplash' effect... Read more

Lines Off

By: Hugo Williams

Narrated by: Hugo Williams

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen and write this deeply moving new collection of poetry - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. He navigates assuredly from thoughtful reminiscences of childhood and accounts of the war, through... Read more

One Day I Will Save Myself

By: Elvira Sastre

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut US poetry collection from social media star Elvira Sastre, exploring the sharp, slippery moments that turn a beloved relationship into something self-destructive.

Counting the days that pass after a devastating breakup, Elvira Sastre confronts the haunting questions that surround every failed relationship: What happened? Where did it... Read more

Sisters First

By: Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush

Narrated by: Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A lovely, lyrical ode to the magic of sisterhood by beloved former first daughters and bestselling authors Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush.
A young girl's wish is granted when a new sister arrives. While the baby can't do much, over time the big and little siblings become inseparable, playing and dancing, imagining and laughing. By each... Read more

Amar(se) es de valientes

By: Alejandro Ordóñez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ordóñez & Tania Naredo

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Debes ser muy valiente para avanzar cuando el corazón se acostumbra a vivir herido. Pelear la batalla contra ti mismo para sanar, para transformar la herida en cicatriz sin dejar nunca de creer en el amor. Amar (a otros o a ti mismo) es de valientes... porque te enfrentas a realidades que no esperas, a dolores que pueden tardar en desaparecer.... Read more

At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned and the Absinthe-Minded

By: Maria Alexander

Narrated by: Maria Alexander

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bitter herbs. Icy droplets. Saccharine morsels. Sapphire flames. This notorious libation of La Belle Époque swirls and clouds as an opalescent collection of verse so impassioned that to overindulge could be deadly. Read with care — and plenty of sugar cubes.
“Dark, visionary, and at times demonic, the poems in Maria Alexander’s AT LOUCHE ENDS,... Read more

Orgasmic Sinister

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Immerse your Spirit in a world of darkened narrative poetry, blended with insightful and twisted humor. An hourglass is tilted; but, but, death is nothing, compared to possessing of a hunted soul and spirit. Read more

ROMANTIC HIGHWAY (ROMANIAN LANGUAGE)

By: Samuel Ciocan

Narrated by: Samuel Ciocan

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

STĂRI SUFLETEȘTI, DORINȚE ȘI IDEI.VERS ȘI CANDOARE.UN ROMÂN PUR IUBEȘTE ȘI URĂȘTE. Read more

Peaches Goes It Alone

By: Frederick Seidel

Narrated by: Frederick Seidel

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A stunning new collection from a “beguiling and magisterial” poet (The New York Times Book Review)

This is the End of Days.
This is what we’ve been waiting for always.
I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.
Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.
I say that to my girlfriend Life.

Peaches Goes It Alone,... Read more

Evolution

By: Eileen Myles

Narrated by: Eileen Myles

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The first all-new collection of poems since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets―and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice―here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that... Read more

I Must Be Living Twice

By: Eileen Myles

Narrated by: Eileen Myles

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles’ work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing new considerations of familiar places, like the East... Read more

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

Narrated by: Terrance Hayes

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead



In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the... Read more

Libretto for the Desert

By: Sona Van

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Libretto for the Desert, Sona Van’s subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Van’s parents and grandparents were driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection to this history as well as the universality of loss, persecution, and intolerance. Read more

New Hampshire

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. New Hampshire features Frost’s meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the... Read more

Jason and the Argonauts

By: Apollonios of Rhodes

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the order of King Pelias, Jason embarks on a perilous journey to steal the Golden Fleece from the Land of Colchis. Far from heroic, Jason is the typical everyman. He is given to intense bouts of nervousness and anxiety, and is saved on more than one occasion by the sorceress Medea, Jason’s love interest, and his band of heroes: Castor and... Read more

Tafsir Dan Makna Ayat Kursi (Verse of The Throne) Edisi Bilingual Bahasa Indonesia Dan Bahasa Arab

By: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro

Narrated by: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Studio

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Ayat Kursi atau Ayat Singgasana adalah ayat ke-255 dari Surah Al-Baqarah. Ayat ini disebutkan dalam sebuah hadits yang diriwayatkan Ubay bin Ka'ab sebagai ayat paling agung dalam Al Qur'an. Isinya tentang keesaan Allah SWT serta kekuasaan Allah yang mutlak atas segala sesuatu dan bahwa Ia tidak kesulitan sedikitpun dalam memeliharanya.
Allah,... Read more

Learn German with Stories

By: Patrick Haul

Narrated by: Patrick Khatrao

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn German with Stories - A modern approach to learning German in a fun and interactive way!Learning a new language can be extremely difficult. Especially one that seems so challenging. With its complex grammar rules and strange sounds, it can discourage anyone willing to give the German language a try. On top of that, today’s society has made... Read more