Poetry audiobooks

Hope

By: Rima Jbara

Narrated by: Melanie Taylor

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope is about a woman who lives in a drowned world and is going through a silent ruin, and finds comfort in believing that her own self exists as another being, and confides her inner most secrets to her. It all started with a dream, advancing to a nightmare that then became a reality. Hope plays a lonely game in silence until her dreams turn to... Read more

The Virgin of Bennington

By: Kathleen Norris

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The book her devoted readers have been waiting for. At last, New York Times betselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous narrative . . .a story of sex, drugs, and poetry. After spending her high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its culture of drugs, sex, and... Read more

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

Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Gerardo Prat

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924, cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las... Read more

The Essential Neruda

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: C. S. Verdád

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever.This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world’s leading Neruda scholars.A... Read more

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

Narrated by: Warsan Shire

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the... Read more

Un Pueblo fuera del Mapa

By: José Hogas

Narrated by: José Hogas

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Y si estoy aquí, No es porque sé caminar o porque al norte Le brillan los ojos, el corazón no sabe de Esas cosas, y esta vez, yo lo he seguido... Aquí estoy Y desconozco la forma en que me pasa, Podría lastimarme horas y horas, Y aunque las palomas, y aunque el tren Ruidoso de mi pueblo intente despertarme, No conseguirían más que atarme De pies... Read more

Pink Mist

By: Owen Sheers

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard, Robert K. Benson, Andrew Fallaize...

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat.In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men... Read more

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Chen Chen

Narrated by: Chen Chen

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

WINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRY

WINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD

WINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE

A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATURE

ON NPR BOOKS'S LIST OF "POETRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO: 2017'S BEST VERSE"

In this ferocious and tender debut,... Read more

How Did This Happen?

By: Mary D. Esselman & Elizabeth Ash Vélez

Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Karissa Vacker, Erin Bennett &...

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of "aging while female." Read more

Poemas de Amor

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Gerardo Prat

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Cargados de sensualidad y pasión, los poemas de amor de Pablo Neruda son los más célebres de la obra del premio Nobel, cautivando a los lectores con imágenes terrestres y disfrutando de un fuego re-imaginación del mundo. Sobre todo por escrito en la paradisíaca isla de Capri (el entorno idílico de la película ganadora del Oscar Il Postino)... Read more

Lift Off

By: Donovan Livingston

Narrated by: Donovan Livingston

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational rallying call about education, race, and the true nature of equality—the Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation speech praised as “powerful” by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Teen Vogue and “inspired” by Justin Timberlake.

In emotionally charged spoken-word poetry, Livingston shares a message of hope and hard truths,... Read more

The Captain’s Verses

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain’s Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri―the paradisiacal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri’s natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were... Read more

Faith, Family & Friends

By: Jeff Hauk & Ken Hauk

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This book consists of inspiring poems inspired by real-life experiences.This book is available in E-book, Softcover and Hardcover. For Hardcover orders, please call Toll Free: +1-888-795-4274 or visit www.xlibris.com.   Read more

Mom’s Poetry

By: Kathleen Dunleavy

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful collection of poems written by a mother as she has travelled along the path of her life. This collection consists of some solemn and spiritual works, several Thanksgiving prayer-poems which depict all family members, a passionate 9-11 poem from a hands-on perspective, and three family deaths. Read more

Bibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen - Abridged

By: Anonymus

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

200 deutsche Balladen in chronologischer Form, beginnend mit dem 17. Jahrhundert, bis ins 20.! Meisterwerke von Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Meyer, Busch, Fontane, Storm und vielen mehr! Ein wahrhaft erschöpfendes Kompendium! Mit dabei: Eine pdf-Datei mit der Titelliste und den Lebensdaten der Autoren. Read more

Space Platform

By: Murray Leinster

Narrated by: Arthur Vincet

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Space Platform is a YA science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. The novel concerns the sabotage of attempts to place a platform in Earth orbit. The book is remarkable for its sense of realism and technical exactitude whilst always being a chilling and breathtaking tale! Read more

Islands of Space

By: John Wood Campbell, Jr.

Narrated by: Arthur Vincet

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Islands of Space is a science fiction novel generally credited with introducing the concepts of hyperspace and the warp drive to science fiction. The novel concerns the adventures of a trio of heroes, Arcot, Morey and Wade... "As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below... Read more

Höhenangst und Fallsucht

By: Hanife Örki

Narrated by: Hanife Örki

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bekannt aus der Slamszene, gibt Hanife Örki nicht vor wie keine andere das Lebensgefühl einer ganzen Generation einzufangen. Aber sie spricht als ein Teil von ihr. Ob im Buch gedruckt, auf der Bühne performt oder im Audiobook erzählt – ihre Texte wirken auf besondere Weise: sie sind pur, natürlich und persönlich. Die junge Autorin präsentiert... Read more

Finding Emily Dickinson in the power of her poetry

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive woman than we thought we knew. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more

Cuéntame un verso

By: Varios autores

Narrated by: Abbey C., Holden Centeno, Irene G Punto, Karmel...

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay algo que tienen que contarte Abbey C, Holden Centeno, Irene G Punto, Karmelo C. Iribarren, Luis Ramiro, Miguel Gane y Mikel Izal. ¿Eres de los que se apunta a los recitales de poesía? ¿Te apetece disfrutar de un buen relato? ¿Te gustaría poder escuchar siempre que quieras a tus autores favoritos? Cuéntame un verso, la antología de textos de... Read more

Hablemos de Ello

By: Jaime Arenas Saavedra

Narrated by: Jaime Arenas Saavedra

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hablemos de ello" es el tercer poemario publicado del autor, convirtiéndose en una obra que marca un antes y un después en la temática de su poesía. Como el mismo expresa, esta obra aborda un aspecto de sí mismo y del ser humano que ha sido interpretado por otras disciplinas del arte y el conocimiento, de forma científica y hasta quirúrgica.... Read more

William Shakespeare - Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare. There are 24 in number in this first selection. They are in order: Numbers: 18, 33, 11, 3, 5, 6, 29, 10, 22, 2, 4, 7, 1, 9, 27, 8, 30, 116, 34, 54, 12, 66, 77, 60. Read more

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Browning (1812-1889) playright and poet is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse of which he is a recognized master. He also wrote many lighter poems with a humorous touch. Here is one of his best known: “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Read more