Poetry audiobooks

Deep Roots, Dark Forests

By: Vanessa K. Eccles

Narrated by: Vanessa K. Eccles

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep Roots, Dark Forests explores the unseen, the unnoticed, and the uncared for in our lives. It's the simple everyday things that are the most fascinating—the flowers, the forest, the decaying architecture in an old southern town. It's the silent, quick blooms of an azalea, the big, pure magnolia blossoms, and the wide roots of a live oak that... Read more

The Waste Land

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Jon Waters

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.”
The Waste Land is a seminal work of modernist poetry by T.S. Eliot. Written in 1922, this five-part poem is a portrait of its time, a work that expresses the disillusionment of the modernist era and the desperation... Read more

FUCK'EM

By: Markeisha Darden

Narrated by: Inspire

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“I‘M NOT A BITTER BITCH I’M JUST A WOMAN WHO IS TIRED OF YOUR SHIT!”  This book is not meant to bash men but simply to empower other women as I learn to take my power back. So many times we give so much of ourselves in a relationship only to leave with nothing left. I wrote this book of poetry to inspire you as life has inspired me. We have to... Read more

Piers Plowman

By: William Langland

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Piers Plowman, William Langland’s visionary medieval work about one man’s quest for the true Christian life, is an allegorical journey through dream visions and visions within dreams. During the course of his journey, the narrator (William Langland) meets Piers Plowman, who gradually reveals himself to be the son of God. Through Piers, William... Read more

Goethe vs. Schiller: 1797 – Das Balladenjahr

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Zwölf berühmte Balladen schrieben Goethe und Schiller im Balladenjahr 1797, quasi eine Art "Balladen-Battle". Und die Resultate können sich wahrlich hören lassen! Mit dabei: Der Schatzgräber, Der Ring des Polykrates, Der Zauberlehrling, Der Taucher, Der Gott und die Bajadere, Der Handschuh, Die Braut von Korinth, Die Kraniche des Ibykus, Legende... Read more

Broken to unbreakable - 12 steps to an unbreakable mind, body and spirit

By: Krissy Regan

Narrated by: Krissy Regan, Jessica Stokes & Dave Stokes

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

• Do you look into the future and see a healthy person?
• Are you thinking about your bank balance or what’s left in your physical tank by the time you hang up your boots?
• Have you wondered what it would feel like to have an unbreakable mind, body and spirit, capable of weathering any storm?
This is the book for you!
This book is designed to get... Read more

The Raven

By: Edgar Allen Poe

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Raven by American writer Edgar Allan Poe was firstt published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught young man lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore.
Poe claimed to have written the poem with the intention to... Read more

Carl Spitteler - Der Wanderer

By: Carl Spitteler

Narrated by: Marco Caduff

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Ballade von Carl Spitteler: Ein Wanderer ist bei Schnee und Eis unterwegs und begegnet der Schneefrau, die ihn auffordert, anzuhalten und ihrem Lied zuzuhören ... (Bild: Ausschnitt aus "Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer" von Caspar David Friedrich) Read more

A Sight to Behold

By: Ann B. Rhodes

Narrated by: Ann B. Rhodes

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Sight to Behold" is a continuation of the first poetry book "From the Beginning Until Now". It contains a style of poetry that includes everlasting life, dealing with relationships, and much, much more. The main theme of this genre of poetry is that if you put God above all situations, you will always succeed. This poetry is based from some... Read more

Metamorphoses

By: Ovid

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya & Da...

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney.

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an... Read more

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

Narrated by: Tommy Pico

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

Canción de Bruma

By: Santi Balmes

Narrated by: Santi Balmes

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Se han dado casos de cosas inexplicables, de hombres que se bañan con sirenas, de cicatrices en la frente de hombres valientes, de abecedarios del mal, de canciones de cuna, de carreras que nada tienen que ver con distancias, de patinadoras que dejan huella, de los fantásticos años veinte, de monstruos con rutinas, de conversaciones con la... Read more

Love Poems for Anxious People

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people.

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married... Read more

The sacred history of solitude and solitariness

By: Khaled Hafdhi

Narrated by: Frank Meaden

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Solitude offers us that other space of thinking, another modality where we can meet different ingredients of perfection. The author is letting his pen engrave what the fuel of the holy history of solitude may inspire, echoing as much lonesome voices from the past with a never ending thirst to offer the best in us.Solitude was there for us all... Read more

The Big J vs The Big C: Issues, Experiences and Poems in the Battle Against Breast Cancer

By: Janine Booth

Narrated by: Janine Booth

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, author and activist Janine Booth was part of the ranting poetry movement of the eighties, performing as 'The Big J'. In late 2016, she discovered a strange indentation in her right breast and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. In this collection of candid journal extracts, poetry, meticulous research and substantive politics,... Read more

The Vivian Poems

By: Bruce Rice

Narrated by: Zoé Beaulieu Prpick

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Work is love made visible.” - Khalil GibranFilled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. This audiobook, narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, contains two full versions of The Prophet: Part One, with music by Stefan Frankenberger. Part Two, with... Read more

This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what... Read more

Lean Against This Late Hour

By: Garous Abdolmalekian

Narrated by: Sean Rohani

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 

A vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent... Read more

The Essential T.S. Eliot

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: T. S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Wi...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart,  Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith,... Read more

Conversations with Good Men

By: Bethel Swift

Narrated by: Bethel Swift

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversations with Good Men is a three-act drama, written in verse, that takes readers on a journey of love, longing, heartbreak, and hope. Swift’s poems compassionately explore the concept of man’s “goodness” in addition to her own struggles as a single female navigating the world of dating and relationships while contending with anxiety,... Read more

The Malevolent Volume

By: Justin Phillip Reed

Narrated by: Justin Phillip Reed

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between
the monstrous and the sublime.

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural
fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the... Read more

Prince Neptune

By: Cody R. Simpson

Narrated by: Cody R. Simpson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.
Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, Prince... Read more