Poetry audiobooks

Take It

By: Joshua Beckman

Narrated by: Joshua Beckman

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesTake It is a gift of expansive and expressive generosity. The poems masterfully combine traditional and contemporary concerns and speech in attending to a degraded, yet wondrous world. Read more

Das Schönste vom Schwager

By: Herbert Schneider

Narrated by: Herbert Schneider

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit der CD "Das Schönste vom Schwager" spannt er einen weiten Bogen über sein langjähriges Schaffen. In liebevoller Heiterkeit schreibt, - nein spricht er über seine Geburtsstadt. Witzig, manchmal ironisch, hintergründig aber immer zugetan beschreibt er Alltagssituationen und in poetischer Melancholie spricht er vom Vergessen und Vergehen. Alles... Read more

Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold)

By: Aida Salazar

Narrated by: Dani Gonzalez

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees.Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to... Read more

Umbilicus

By: Carrie Schiffler

Narrated by: Carrie Schiffler

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Umbilicus is a meditation on sensuality, blood, hunger, and the sweet ache of shame’s hangover. Carrie Schiffler is an actor, writer, and former exotic dancer. Johanna Stickland is a photographer, painter, poet, and former fashion model. Both are smitten by the female form, intrigued by unpolished beauty and drawn to dark pubs and radiant beings... Read more

Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai

By: Vijay Tendulkar

Narrated by: Unicorn Actors Studio

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

देश के सर्वोच्च साहित्यिक सम्मान ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित मराठी लेखक विजय तेंदुलकर का यह नाटक भारत के महानतम आधुनिक नाटकों में से एक माना जाता है और पिछले कई दशकों में इसकी प्रस्तुतियाँ देश की अलग अलग भाषाओं में हुई हैं. सत्तर के दशक के पहले प्रदर्शन से अब तक इस नाटक की लोकप्रियता और प्रासंगिकता कभी कम नहीं हुई है. स्टोरीटेल की थिएटर सीरीज़... Read more

이별 연습 : Parting Practice

By: Seongchung Gim

Narrated by: Nanhee Kim

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A story that everyone must have experienced in love at least once. 
In the recitation book, a farewell facing the person you loved!It depicts a feeling of hope that love will never end.
In “Parting Practice”, two poems written by poet Seongchung GimIt was recorded in the voice of reciter Nanhee Kim.
사랑하면서 누구나 한번쯤 겪었을 것 같은 이야기. 
낭송집에는 사랑했던 사람과 마주한... Read more

L'Amour de vivre

By: Cécile Le Ray

Narrated by: Cécile Le Ray

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

L'Amour de vivre rassemble les derniers textes de Cécile Le Ray, qu'elle habille de son timbre chaud et enveloppant. Après une carrière lyrique, où elle s'est produite sur de nombreuses scènes (Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Unesco…), elle est remarquée par France 2 et est invitée à plusieurs Teléthons. France 3 lui consacre même un... Read more

The Canyon's Edge

By: Dusti Bowling

Narrated by: Casey Holloway

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hatchet meets Long Way Down in this heartfelt and gripping novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.

One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find... Read more

The Book of Job

By: King James Version & Stephen Curkpatrick

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller & Denis Daly

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Accusation is the unperceived catalyst for this dramatic narrative; Job is framed by the accusation that his self-invested allegiance to God will evaporate if he is exposed to adversity. Job is unaware that this wager against his integrity has taken place. The drama that ensues on an epic scale resonates with universal experiences of human... Read more

SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It's time to reclaim poetry.

Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life... Read more

Tughlaq

By: Girish Karnad

Narrated by: Kshitij Theatre Group

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

देश के सर्वोच्च साहित्यिक सम्मान ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित कन्नड़ लेखक गिरीश क़र्नाड़ का यह नाटक भारत के महानतम आधुनिक नाटकों में से एक माना जाता है और पिछले कई दशकों में इसकी प्रस्तुतियाँ देश की अलग अलग भाषाओं में हुई हैं. अब्राहम अलकाजी के प्रसिद्ध प्रोडक्शन से अब तक इस नाटक की लोकप्रियता और प्रासंगिकता कभी कम नहीं हुई है. दिल्ली के मशहूर... Read more

Seeds of Kindness…

By: Jim Boeglin

Narrated by: Steve Salge

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Kindness was a lesson worth learning as a child in the 1950s and 1960s—and it is more relevant than ever as the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest.

Jim Boeglin draws on the lessons he learned as a child and throughout adulthood to spread that message in this book of poetry.

Much of the collection was written during... Read more

Café Boogie

By: Jeni Nixon

Narrated by: Jeni Nixon

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Nixon uses bold phrasing and syntax to record a life lived in and around Sydney s bohemian culture and lesbian and gay communities from the 1970s to the present. Her poetry is atmospheric, immediate and celebrates awareness gained, while honorouring the losses and counting the costs, including deaths of family friends and muses taken by... Read more

Owed

By: Joshua Bennett

Narrated by: Joshua Bennett

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker)

Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "abounding in tenderness and rich with... Read more

Soledades, Galerías y otros poemas

By: Antonio Machado

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas es un poemario de Antonio Machado. Fue editado por primera vez en Madrid en 1907 incluyendo parte de Soledades, libro anterior, publicado en 1903. Enmarcado en la corriente modernista, el propio Machado definió el conjunto de poemas como «una poda de ramas superfluas en la poesía española».4​ Escrito con... Read more

Баллады. Поэмы. Стихотворения

By: Василий Андреевич Жуковский

Narrated by: Вячеслав Герасимов

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

В аудиокнигу включены произведения В. А. Жуковского, рекомендованные для чтения и изучения на уроках литературы в 6 и 10 классах средней школы. БАЛЛАДЫ Людмила Светлана Ивиковы журавли Лесной царь Кубок ПОЭМЫ Шильонский узник СТИХОТВОРЕНИЯ Певец во стане русских воинов Сельское кладбище Песня ("Минувших дней очарованье…") Море Read more

Sonetos del Amor oscuro - Varia

By: Federico García Lorca

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Los Sonetos del amor oscuro, o simplemente Sonetos, son una colección de sonetos escritos durante sus últimos años de vida por el poeta y dramaturgo español Federico García Lorca (Granada, 1898–1936), recopilados y publicados póstumamente. Por tanto, no es un libro definitivo establecido por el autor, y las diferentes ediciones pueden variar,... Read more

Runaway

By: Jorie Graham

Narrated by: Jorie Graham

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of the YearA collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie GrahamIn her formidable and clairvoyant collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not?Keeping pace with the... Read more

I'm Rising

By: Michelle G. Stradford

Narrated by: MIlan Dancy

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Take back your Power, your Glorious and Rise!
“I'm Rising: Determined. Confident. Powerful.” takes the reader on an emotive journey of empowerment through life’s countless triumphs and tribulations.
Above all else, it inspires one to tap into their infinite potential so they can overcome any obstacle that appears on their unique path. Through... Read more

The Fickle Brat

By: Chris Mansell

Narrated by: Chris Mansell

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Mansell is a keen observer of human nature, as adept in presenting the pre-language utterings of a toddler as a memorial tribute to a poet who died young. In spite of the trials we face, she never loses her sense of irony and humour. Her extended work “good poetry” treats the power politics of writing with a delightful honesty. Read more

3rd i

By: Basil Eliades

Narrated by: Basil Eliades

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“These are poems that go beyond the limits of words. By wrestling with the poems in 3rd i, by engaging with them, the world is more intensely lived. This guy is offering us everything. This is heroic poetry.” — John Marsden Read more

King Hit

By: Stephen Oliver & Matt Otley

Narrated by: Stephen Oliver

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Oliver's voice resonates with strength and passion. With the highly original music of Matt Ottley this CD transports us across soundscapes of harmony and disharmony, life and death, peace and violence. Read more

I Like to Wash My Face with Seawater

By: Saumitra Saxena & Dhiraj Singh

Narrated by: Harish Bhimani

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing Saumitra’ s poetry to an English relishing readership is like reliving its flavor a few years ago in Hindi when these very poems caught the print eye of an eminent publisher, Bharatiya Gyanpith. Saumitra’s selection was not only published from there but also bestowed the ‘Navlekhan Award,’ and these poems have been expertly... Read more

Poetic Expressions My Love to the World

By: bernice

Narrated by: Barry Thomas

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspirational poetry by bernice willis Read more