Poetry audiobooks

Space and Time Magazine Issue #135 - Abridged

By: Angela Yuriko Smith, Elsa M Carruthers, Alessan...

Narrated by: Ryan Aussie Smith, Linda D Addison & Angela Yur...

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The final issue of the year comes when the nights in the Northern Hemisphere are at their longest and coldest. It’s at this time that fiction is needed the most. Against the backdrop of darkness, we gather close and whisper tales to entertain and inspire—and to remind ourselves that dawn will return.Welcome to issue #135. In these pages are the... Read more

Tomorrow's Woman

By: Greta Bellamacina

Narrated by: Greta Bellamacina & Robert Montgomery

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling poetic meditation on motherhood, female identity, ennui, and love by Greta Bellamacina, London-based poet, actress, filmmaker, and model.

In Tomorrow's Woman, Greta Bellamacina's bold, exploratory voice combines the vivid imagery of French surrealism and British romantic poetry with a modern, first-person examination of love, gender... Read more

Wing

By: Matthew Francis

Narrated by: Matthew Francis

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied... Read more

Love Poems for People with Children

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

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

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People such a hit, John Kenney is back... Read more

# Wuhan

By: Sophia Behal

Narrated by: Sophia Behal

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

#WUHAN“Empowering Poems and Pros-a about feelings and such…”No doubt we were all afraid of an epidemy. The award nominated audiobook deals mainly with the fears poeple in Wuhan had to live throughduring early February 2020 when no one knew if covid-19 is as deadly as SARS.Find some alarming and soothing words for your soul. And please let's wear... Read more

Love Poems for Married People

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: John Kenney

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People takes the poetic form, turns it upside down and leaves it in the... Read more

S01E10 Rabindranath Tagore: Bhakti Prem Vidroh

By: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Narrated by: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

भारतीय कविता की एक महान परम्परा है जो समय, इतिहास, भूगोल और विभिन्न भाषाओं के आर-पार फैली है. सुप्रसिद्ध हिंदी कवि और हिंदी भाषा के नये आत्मविश्वास के अग्रणी नायक कुमार विश्वास अपनी पहली ऑडियो ओरिजिनल सीरीज़ में हमें इस महान परम्परा की कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक की यात्रा करवा रहे हैं और आग्रह कर रहे हैं कि हम भक्ति, प्रेम और विद्रोह की इस विलक्षण... Read more

Fond Farewells

By: Rebecca Trowbridge

Narrated by: Rebecca Trowbridge

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ease the heartbreak when saying farewell.Fond Farewells is an award-winning collection of four illustrated poem stories that explore different moods of goodbye: Leaving and hoping for the best, Leaving on a trip then returning, Moving away and keeping in touch, and Saying a very final goodbye.Every story, however, has a positive thought to help... Read more

Nadie sale ileso del amor

By: Alejandro Ordóñez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ordóñez

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Nadie puede decirte cuándo te tiene que dejar de doler. Es un proceso, tómate tu tiempo para volver a sonreir. Con un estilo muy particular, Alejandro Ordóñez presenta las tres facetas del enamoramiento a partir del dolor: amor, desamor y amor propio, y sumerge al lector en un proceso de reconstrucción emocional. Cuando algo tan fuerte se... Read more

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men

By: Martina Evans

Narrated by: Martina Evans & Colin Still

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for... Read more

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United StatesIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from... Read more

Reflections of Life

By: Richard Azael Martinez Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Rain in my mind. Thinking of a beach, Anywhere I can relax And soak my feet. Maybe you already know What I mean. The water is warm. We can watch the sun and then the moon, no demons to defeat. The norm is freedom. Richard Azael Martinez Jr. has seen his share of challenges throughout his lifetime. In his first compilation of poems, he... Read more

Works and Days

By: Hesiod

Narrated by: Victor Craig

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Works and Days’ is a didactic poem of some 800 lines composed by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The poem deals with daily life and work, interwoven with allegory, fable and personal history. It also serves as a farmer's almanac, through which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts, and as a compendium of advice for... Read more

S01E09 Qazi Nazrul Islam: Bhakti Prem Vidroh

By: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Narrated by: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

भारतीय कविता की एक महान परम्परा है जो समय, इतिहास, भूगोल और विभिन्न भाषाओं के आर-पार फैली है. सुप्रसिद्ध हिंदी कवि और हिंदी भाषा के नये आत्मविश्वास के अग्रणी नायक कुमार विश्वास अपनी पहली ऑडियो ओरिजिनल सीरीज़ में हमें इस महान परम्परा की कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक की यात्रा करवा रहे हैं और आग्रह कर रहे हैं कि हम भक्ति, प्रेम और विद्रोह की इस विलक्षण... Read more

Und draußen die Welt

By: Patrick Salmen

Narrated by: Patrick Salmen

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Für diesen Band habe ich meine persönlichen Lieblingsgeschichten ausgesucht. Dies waren meine ersten Schritte als Autor und der Versuch, eine eigene Sprache zu finden: Geschichten, die sich mit dem Schreiben auseinandersetzen, über das Scheitern, die Faszination von Kränen und Strommasten und die Angst vor dem Vergessen. Geschichten über Väter,... Read more

The Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

Narrated by: Hala Alyan

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." —LitHub



For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith—winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive... Read more

Homie

By: Danez Smith

Narrated by: Danez Smith

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Danez Smith is our president



Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a... Read more

Rhonda Gowler Greene Children's Collection

By: Rhonda Gowler Greene

Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Andrew Finn McGill & Sheila Hart

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook collection includes everyday favorites from celebrated children’s author Rhonda Gowler Greene:Jonah and the Great Big FishJonah’s disobedience landed him inside a big fish! And there he had time to think and pray. Children will feel the waves and hear the splash as Jonah sinks “down and down and down” into the belly of the fish.... Read more

S01E08 Akka Mahadevi : Bhakti Prem Vidroh

By: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Narrated by: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

भारतीय कविता की एक महान परम्परा है जो समय, इतिहास, भूगोल और विभिन्न भाषाओं के आर-पार फैली है. सुप्रसिद्ध हिंदी कविऔर हिंदी भाषा के नये आत्मविश्वास के अग्रणी नायक कुमार विश्वास अपनी पहली ऑडियो ओरिजिनल सीरीज़ में हमें इस महान परम्परा की कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक की यात्रा करवा रहे हैं और आग्रह कर रहे हैं कि हम भक्ति, प्रेम और विद्रोह की इस विलक्षण... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte - Gesammelte Werke, Teil 1

By: Wilhelm Busch, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Joh...

Narrated by: Wolfgang Rositzka

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutsche Gedichte: In dieser auf zwei Ausgaben verteilten Zusammenstellung werden einige der relevantesten und bekanntesten Gedichte deutscher Autoren vereint. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Heinrich Heine oder auch Kurt Tucholsky, um nur einige der enthaltenen Autoren zu nennen, haben mit ihren Worten Epochen begleitet... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte - Gesammelte Werke, Teil 2

By: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Friedrich Nietzsch...

Narrated by: Karin Dieck

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutsche Gedichte: In dieser auf zwei Ausgaben verteilten Zusammenstellung werden einige der relevantesten und bekanntesten Gedichte deutscher Autoren vereint. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Heinrich Heine oder auch Kurt Tucholsky, um nur einige der enthaltenen Autoren zu nennen, haben mit ihren Worten Epochen begleitet... 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

Don't Call Us Dead

By: Danez Smith

Narrated by: Danez Smith

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry



Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection



Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where... Read more

Loss

By: David Harsent

Narrated by: David Harsent

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone. It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come. A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. This fragmentary vigil anchors a... Read more