Poetry audiobooks

Ask Baba Yaga: The Audiobook Collection

By: Taisia Kitaiskaia

Narrated by: Zura Johnson

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved online advice column, ASK BABA YAGA is a collection of off-kilter, sometimes funny, and always strikingly honest advice, answering real reader questions about relationships, self-knowledge, and how to face our troubling world.
Poet and author Taisia Kitaiskaia embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide... Read more

Parisade

By: Carl Spitteler

Narrated by: Marco Caduff

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Dschems, die Tochter des Kalifen von Damaskus, schiesst drei Pfeile über das Tor des Palasthofes und verspricht demjenigen, der sie ihr zurückbringt, einen Kuss. Soliman, ein junger Sklave, macht sich auf die Suche nach den Pfeilen … (Cover © Otto Dürst) Read more

The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies & Robin Kirkpatrick

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.... Read more

The Girl and the Goddess

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with an innovative novel in verse, exploring Hindu mythology and legend.

Let her be a little less human, a little more divine
Give her heart armor so it doesn't break as easily as mine

Meet Paro. A girl with a strong will, a full heart, and much to learn. Born into a family... Read more

Everything Comes Next

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye & James Patrick Cronin

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved and acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye is the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, serving until August 2021. This celebratory book collects in one volume her most popular and accessible poems from the past forty years. Featuring new, never-before-published poems, an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a... Read more

Cockatoos in the Mangroves

By: Vanessa S. Lee-AhMat

Narrated by: Josephine Croft

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a great need for poetry in this world. Words twisted together can let the imagination travel through time and place and connects you with a sense of emotional expression and understanding - like all forms of Art. In “Cockatoos in the Mangroves”, Lee-AhMat an Aboriginal-Torres Strait Islander woman covers many of the social and life... Read more

Swimming Lessons

By: Lili Reinhart

Narrated by: Lili Reinhart

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity.

I seem to be your new favorite novel.
One that keeps you up at night,
turning my pages.
Fingers lingering on me so you don’t lose your place.

Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric... Read more

Willoughby

By: Abhay Adil

Narrated by: Carl Oakes

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Willoughby is a poem inspired by "The Twilight Zone” episode “A stop at Willoughby”.This audiobook contains the single poem and the explanation and interpretation by the poet of both the poem and the “The Twilight Zone” episode which inspired it. Read more

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

By: John Lithgow

Narrated by: Mr. John Lithgow

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump.

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes... Read more

A Collection of Thoughts

By: Isaac Kroll

Narrated by: Steve Salge

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A Collection Of Thoughts is everything to me. It includes nearly all the poetry, prose, and a good chunk of the things that went through my head in highschool that I deemed worth writing down. I created it to help people, whether they feel alone, are having trouble moving forward, or need a visual to take their mind elsewhere. But those in a... Read more

Whale Day

By: Billy Collins

Narrated by: Billy Collins

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal
 
“The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the everyday.”—The Wall Street Journal

Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems... Read more

On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light

By: Marge Piercy

Narrated by: Marge Piercy

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A bountiful group of poems--direct, honest, and revelatory--that reflect on language, nature, old age, young love, Judaism, and our current politics, from one of our most read and admired poets

"Words are my business," Marge Piercy begins her twentieth collection of poetry, a glance back at a lifetime of learning, loving, grieving, and fighting... Read more

The Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu

Narrated by: Jason Rosette

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Achieve Harmony and Balance with the Ancient Wisdom of the Tao Te ChingThe Tao Te Ching, also known as The Tao and its Characteristics, is an ancient spiritual book of expressions and aphorisms on the mysterious nature of the 'Tao' - - a mysterious, force-like principle of the universe which emphasizes the discipline and philosophy of... Read more

Even the Milky Way is Undocumented

By: Amy Shimshon-Santo

Narrated by: Amy Shimshon-Santo

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy Shimshon-Santo's EVEN THE MILKY WAY IS UNDOCUMENTED is a testament to the lost, the loved, the courageous. Each poem is the past and the future. Each page turns for those built by families that span political borders -- families that see borders as nothing more than lines drawn by an invisible hand that's long forgotten that we belong to the... Read more

The Math Campers

By: Dan Chiasson

Narrated by: Dan Chiasson, Sybil Johnson & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet.

The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem... Read more

Jazz & Lyrik (Ungekürzt)

By: Peter Rühmkorf

Narrated by: Peter Rühmkorf

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Wahlverwandtschaft zwischen Musik und Poesie "Ich bin ja auch ein bißchen wie ein Instrument, d.h. meine Gedichte liegen fest, so wie die Tasten auf dem Klavier. Ich muß sie anschlagen mit der Stimme. Mein Gedicht, das ich lese, ist mein Instrument. Ich muß es nur intonieren", schreibt Peter Rühmkorf 1985. In der Geschichte der deutschen... Read more

Pioggia in Rime

By: Juan Moisés De La Serna

Narrated by: Maurizio Mosetti

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Raccolta di poesie dedicate alla pioggia e alle sensazioni che essa provoca sugli uomini, gli animali e tutte le cose del nostro mondo.
JUAN MOISES DE LA SERNA, Dottore in Psicologia e professore universitario, relatore e divulgatore scientifico. Viaggiatore instancabile, che gli ha permesso di entrare in contatto con culture diverse come quella... Read more

El tiempo tras las horas

By: María Isabel Luque Muñoz

Narrated by: María Isabel Luque Muñoz & Álvaro Saco

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

La construcción en continuo movimiento de nuestra mirada nos lleva de la mano a la coetánea construcción de la memoria. La relación entre el yo y el tiempo sólo puede formularse desde un estado atemporal, detenido, abrazando la quietud, donde nos recostamos para contemplar el horizonte de lo que no se puede expresar con el sentido que otorga... Read more

The Storm

By: Marie J. Mond

Narrated by: Marie Andrascik

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From madness to massacres, this book of poems takes you through a range of emotions from despair to hope, break ups and broken homes to stability and monogamy, questioning and reaffirming what it means to be an American in 2020. Read more

A Powerful Journey Through Poetry

By: Sushil Thind

Narrated by: Nicole Britton

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

To worry too much is called stress, Not kind to mind the best, To keep something In your mind, For your own health it’s not kind, In a friend or family member, Or some other you should speak to or confide, To worry yourself you could end up depressed, To speak to someone and confess, You will be kinder to your mind, The stress will be... Read more

La piel en los labios

By: Miguel Gane

Narrated by: Miguel Gane

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Miguel Gane, autor referente de la nueva generación de poetas, nos transporta en su tercer poemario a un universo lleno de sensualidad, en el que los sentidos son protagonistas esenciales. Poemas que cuentan el inicio y fin del amor desde el erotismo y lo corpóreo como un susurro leve que enarbola la piel. Desde Madrid a Londres pasando por... Read more

Alice in Wonderland - Abridged

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Jane Asher

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Peter Tucker

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An ageing singer asks for shelter at Newark Castle, and in exchange performs for his hostess the Duchess of Buccleuch the story of a 16th century border feud. The story he tells is about the so-called "Flower of Teviot," the Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, who the Baron Henry of Cranstown is in love with. But whilst Henry is from the Ker... Read more

The Lady of the Lake

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Cynthia Moyer

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Lady of the Lake" (1810) is a narrative poem set in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Trossach region of Scotland. It is made up of six cantos, each focusing on one day. There's three main plots to this poem: a competition between three men for the love of one Ellen Douglas, a feud between James Douglas and King James V, and a war... Read more