Poetry audiobooks

By the Shoreline

By: Little Stickman

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Spiritually poised in a realm of sanity comes with a mind that continuously travels extensively throughout time. As the heart accompanies, companionship becomes something so precious that words turn speechless. The heartfelt poems written throughout experiences, observations, stories and heartbreaks are the main cause of survival this soul has... Read more

Elogio de la belleza

By: Roberto Augusto

Narrated by: Álex Ugarte

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

✔️POESÍA PARA DISFRUTAR DE LA VIDA✔️En este poemario su autor reflexiona sobre la vida, la superación del dolor y la belleza de la naturaleza y del mundo. Es una obra breve, pero intensa, inspirada en Walt Whitman y en los haikús japoneses. Los poemas que conforman este libro transmiten optimismo, alegría por vivir y el deseo de disfrutar de las... Read more

In the Lateness of the World

By: Carolyn Forché

Narrated by: Carolyn Forché

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY

“An undisputed literary event.” —NPR

“History—with its construction and its destruction—is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave—a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker

Over four... Read more

As Soft as Fire: Collected Poems

By: Upile Chisala

Narrated by: Upile Chisala

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As Soft as Fire collects Upile Chisala’s three acclaimed poetry books -- soft magic, nectar, and a fire like you -- in audiobook form, complete with the author’s reflections on her inspiration and process. 
soft magic, Chisala’s debut collection, explores themes of survival and healing; nectar expands on the topics of growth and renewal despite... Read more

a fire like you

By: Upile Chisala

Narrated by: Upile Chisala

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair—recasting them as opportunities for growth.
 
In this never-before-published collection, poet Upile Chisala grapples with themes of love, loss, and desire. Throughout this third book, she explores her identity as... Read more

Hambriento

By: Nach

Narrated by: Nach

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Hambriento es una travesía poética de ida y vuelta, repleta de reflexiones, aprendizajes y sensibilidad. Un río a contracorriente que fluye a borbotones hacia las cimas más altas. Nach escribe urgido por una voracidad de emociones y experiencias que parecen saciar un íntimo vacío. Así emprende, a dentelladas, un viaje por sí mismo con una... Read more

Silencios vivos

By: Nach

Narrated by: Nach

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Silencios vivos es una invitación a convivir en la intimidad de otro. Con estos poemas, recitados por él mismo en este audiolibro, Nach abre la puerta de su peque­ño mundo al público atrevido, dispuesto a volar. Letras que son emoción sincera, cargadas de anhelos, de confesiones y de introspección. El autor vuelve a asomarse a su propio interior... Read more

مجنونة قيس - Majnonat Kayes

By: ابتسام الحمري

Narrated by: Sarah Shalaby

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ديوان شعري تصب كل نصوصه في مجرى الحب والشوق والغربة التي يخلفها غياب الحبيب. وقد يصل شعور الغربة إلى الجنون حيث الضياع واللظى.. اختارت شاعرتنا ابتسام أن تحاكي قيسها وتكون هي ليلاه، كي تجر معه أذيال الخيبة التي تصيب هذا الحب جراء الغيابات الساحقة لهما.. فأحيانا تواسيه في الغربة وأحيانا تجعله هو وطنها الأصلي وأحيانا أخرى تتمرد على الغربة الملعونة... Read more

Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles

By: Alan Titchmarsh

Narrated by: Alan Titchmarsh

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect listen for the green-fingered - hilarious and touching poems on a gardening theme written and introduced by the nation's favourite gardener and presenter of ITV's Love Your Garden, Channel 5's Secrets of the National Trust and with his own show on Classic FM.

From touching poems on the peony, the snowdrop and the sweet pea to... Read more

Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?

By: Emma Conway

Narrated by: Emma Conway

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a pyjama-clad woman from Brum,
She's a mostly-happy (sometimes-snappy) mum,
She's written some verse
- it's a little perverse -
and she hopes you find it side-splitting-ly fun!

In her first book, happy-go-lucky YouTuber and Instagrammer Emma Conway explores motherhood in all its glory through the medium of hilarious and uplifting poetry. A... Read more

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

By: Carl Phillips

Narrated by: Carl Phillips

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.

Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know... Read more

The Rumi Prescription

By: Melody Moezzi

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet.

Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she... Read more

O–(ezekiel's wife)

By: C. R. Grimmer

Narrated by: C. R. Grimmer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the Audiobook version of O–(ezekiel's wife), published by GASHER Journal and Press (https://www.gasherjournal.com/product-page/o-ezekiel-s-wife). Judy Twedt, Digital Sound Artist, edited these tracks and added in found and synthesized "sounds of climate change," creating a collaborative poetry album. About the collection: O’s (they/them... Read more

Encouragements

By: Betsy Pritchett

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

You will read pure and simple right from the heart little poems to encourage you. To lift your spirit, heart and mind. They will soothe your troubled spirit. They will give you something to think about as you read them. Read more

The Madman His Parables and Poems

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Mike Vendetti

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Madman by Kahlil Gibran is a collection of 35 short poems and parables that tell the story of a man who has been stripped of all his illusions and artificial faces, leaving him just with the truth of his life, his observations, and his surroundings. It shows the irony of sanity and its status as a social construct.The audiobook version of... Read more

Songs of a Sourdough

By: Robert W Service & Vanessa Grant

Narrated by: Vanessa Grant

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bard of the Yukon ~ Banker, Hobo, and Klondike PoetA downloadable PDF of Klondike Gold Rush illustrations is available on the Resources page at https://BookHip.com/FTCLVRTRobert William Service was born in Lancashire, Engand in 1874. His mother was an heiress and his father a bank cashier. He was the eldest of 10 children.When Service was 4... Read more

Comment nous sommes nés

By: Carole David

Narrated by: Carole David

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ils forment une «parade clinquante», ce sont «des armes dangereuses, un baiser / à retardement». Enfants réels ou allégoriques, ils disparaissent sous nos yeux. Pour les attraper au moment crucial, Comment nous sommes nés déploie ses phrases amples, ses vers durs, monnaie qui brille au fond de la fontaine. Suspendus entre ciel et terre, entre... Read more

Consegnati al silenzio

By: Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi

Narrated by: Roca-Rey Blas

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Un poeta di oggi, "consegnato al silenzio" nella babele assordante del mondo, riporta in vita voci e storie: dagli archibugieri del '600 fino al nonno e al padre, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi gioca con la storia personale e collettiva come un apprendista stregone, nuovo Prometeo o Frankenstein armato solo di parole, tra la malinconia e il riso, il... Read more

Out Of The Shadows Of Shame

By: Elexcia Smith

Narrated by: Elexcia Smith

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is for everyone. Everyone has had ups and downs. We all have had laughs and cries. We’ve had our good days and bad days. This book is to let people know that you can get back up, even when you fall. Even if you feel this is the worst thing you have ever done. I have been there and done that. Yeshua loves us even through our mess. Read more

If Men, Then

By: Eliza Griswold

Narrated by: Eliza Griswold

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity

If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous... Read more

Desiderata

By: Ali

Narrated by: Ali

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the flowing tides of galloping quest,we have set eyes on each otherthen lost our sight,over and over, until we learnedto forget the chase. Desiderata is a fairy tale, and epic poem, cosmic in its scope. It is the tale of two lovers who are cast out of their ideal realm by a jealous sorcerer. Born into our world, the man searches timelessly... Read more

War Music

By: Christopher Logue

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.“Your life at every instant up for― / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,” writes Christopher... Read more

Más allá de mis canciones

By: Andrés Suárez

Narrated by: Andrés Suárez, Ana Viñuela & Javier Portugués (...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Más allá de mis canciones reúne quince letras de canciones, los relatos de las semillas que las inspiraron y tres letras inéditas del cantautor gallego. Más allá de las canciones hay una historia, un momento, una sensación... Aquella tarde que se escapó, el tren que no llegaba nunca o la noche infinita en la que nos sentimos eternos. En este... Read more

Del amor y del olvido

By: Dario Jaramillo

Narrated by: Paco Valdovinos

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Del amor, del olvido es en el fondo un inventario de las distintas fases o formas del amor, sobre las que Jaramillo Agudelo reflexiona con una pasmosa clarividencia. Read more