Poetry audiobooks

Do I love thee… …let me count…

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis, Amy Caldwell & K...

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? Do you wish you were in love? Or perhaps you wish you weren't in love? For everyone who loves, who ever loved, who searches for love, who suffers from love, who rejoices in love, this set of 70 poems is for you. It ranges in time from classical Greece to the early 20th century. It includes voices from... Read more

Chicago Poems

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This was Carl Sandburg's breakthrough book. It is easy to see how it draws directly on Sandburg's life in Chicago, as it speaks powerfully of the specific character of that city and begins with his famous poem that names Chicago as the "City of the Broad Shoulders". His poetry is deeply aware of the inner life of the city, from a homeless woman... Read more

Cornhuskers

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Sandburg fixed his eyes on the people of his time and place. He ignored or scorned the wealthy, the comfortable, the complacent, the powerful and those who serve them; he had no time for the ruling class. His eyes were open to the immigrant, the laborer, the hobo, the farmer, the man who works with his hands, the woman who runs a family, or... Read more

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry. His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view. Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th... Read more

Smoke and Steel

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging. The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere... Read more

A Boy's Will

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written. This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind... Read more

Mountain Interval

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sometimes puckishly humorous, sometimes elegiac, sometimes terrifying, these poems show the young artist using his new-found voice to explore a world - a village in New Hampshire - that meant everything to him. This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as The Road Not Taken, Out! Out!, Birches, and The Hill-wife. It... Read more

North of Boston

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.
From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man. Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in... Read more

A Shropshire Lad

By: A. E. Housman

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition. Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil can come to good people, and human beings can find themselves torn deeply by conflicting desires... Read more

Last Poems

By: A. E. Housman

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.
In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly: "I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more." He pulled Last Poems together because his life-long friend, Moses Jackson, was dying and Housman... Read more

Flame and Shadow

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Teasdale - winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Poetry Society of America prize, and other awards - lived for love and beauty and died by her own hand. Her poetry shows vividly what an intensely passionate woman she was, so much so that in some of her poetry she speaks of the impact of beauty in terms of physical pain, and the impact of love in... Read more

Love Songs

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough; she died by her own hand after a long illness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet... Read more

The Black Riders

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1894, when Stephen Crane was just twenty-two years old, he showed his friend, Hamlin Garland, a set of poems in manuscript. Garland showed them to John D. Barry, who arranged for a public reading of the new work. Crane could not summon up the courage to read the poems, or even attend the reading; he waited outside on the street while Barry... Read more

War Is Kind

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Crane's second book of poetry followed up the success of his first book, Black Riders. His search for love, his lonely, bitter struggle to make his peace with God, the war in his heart between cynicism and an unshakable longing for truth and beauty in the world - these all continue in his second book.Sadly, this second book was also his... Read more

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By: Omar Khayyam & Edward FitzGerald

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald is one of our best-loved books of poetry - and for good reason. Cynical, self-deprecating, witty, mystical, in love with wine and beauty while aware of life and death, Omar's poems put many thoughts we have all had into words we can all enjoy.
Fitzgerald first published... Read more

Rupert Brooke Collected Poems

By: Rupert Brooke

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Rupert Brooke possessed one of the most amazingly sensitive, amazingly sensual poetic minds of the 20th century. Born into a world swiftly sliding into war, torn between highly idealized, romanticized relationships with men and conflicted, often bitter love for women, he expressed his complex emotions and vivid perceptions in verse of startling... Read more

the mermaid's voice returns in this one

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace, Janina Edwards, Soneela Nankan...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid’s voice returns in this one—the third and final installment in her “women are some kind of magic” series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and 13 guest poems from leading voices in poetry such as Nikita Gill, KY Robinson, and Orion... Read more

The She Book

By: Tanya Markul

Narrated by: Tanya Markul

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Crafting together the power of words and womanhood, writer Tanya Markul has written a completely unique poetry collection fit for the phenomenal readers of today.

In Tanya's words, "May we raise the bar for how we live our lives. May we ridiculously increase the amount of peace, play, creativity, beauty, love, and joy in everything we do. May we... Read more

women are some kind of magic

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

ALL THREE VOLUMES OF AMANDA LOVELACE’S POETRY IN ONE AUDIO COLLECTION—READ BY THE AUTHOR AND GUEST CONTRIBUTORS!

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace’s “women are some kind of magic” series is now available in one amazing audio collection!

the princess saves herself in this one:

Winner of the 2016... Read more

Pociones

By: Pancho Varona

Narrated by: Pancho Varona

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ya puedes escuchar el audiolibro de poemas y canciones de Pancho Varona, artista de primera línea, compositor y mano derecha de Joaquín Sabina, que encantarán a todo sabinero que se precie. Las pociones que prepara Pancho Varona llevan ingredientes que sanan el alma: una buena dosis de poemas canallas y seductores, unas cucharadas de canciones... Read more

Dumpty

By: John Lithgow

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller!

Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse is a satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow. Chronicling the last few raucous years in American politics, Lithgow takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency.

• Lampoons the likes of Betsy DeVos, William... Read more

Flèche

By: Mary Jean Chan

Narrated by: Mary Jean Chan

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and... Read more

This Is Real Life

By: Sylvia Hall

Narrated by: Sybil Johnson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

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Inspired Poetry

By: Sylvia Blyth

Narrated by: Joanna Henning

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The poems in this book were all written by Sylvia and were taken from life in general. Things that happened to her or her friends, news on the television or radio. Sylvia was a spiritualist and many of her poems reflect this. I miss her very much, James Blyth. (Husband). Read more