Poetry audiobooks

Poèmes de Paul Verlaine

By: Paul Verlaine

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Avec Baudelaire, Mallarmé et Rimbaud, avec qui il eut une relation orageuse, Paul Verlaine est un des poètes les plus influents de la fin du XIXe siècle. Archétype du poète maudit, il est vite reconnu comme un maître : son style fluide et musical, jouant avec les rythmes impairs, et la mélancolie de ses poèmes faits de clairs-obscurs révèlent... Read more

100 haikus, poésie japonaise

By: Anonyme

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Fondement de la poésie japonaise, le haiku est un petit poème extrêmement bref, qui vise à dire et célébrer l'évanescence des choses. Sa forme est codifiée : c'est un tercet de trois vers de cinq, sept et cinq syllabes. Les haïkus ne sont connus en Occident que depuis le tout début du XXe siècle. Nous avons sélectionné pour vous 100 de ces plus... Read more

Great French Poems

By: Baudelaire, Hugo & Villon

Narrated by: Bill Homewood

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are 35 of the greatest poems in the French language, carefully selected and read in French by Bill Homewood, the bilingual English classical actor who has spent half his life in France. To help those English speakers with just a little French to appreciate the glories of these poems, he provides his own clear English translations.

The poems... Read more

Love & Misadventure

By: Lang Leav

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure, this updated audiobook edition features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Love & Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through the highly relatable themes of love—from the initial butterflies,... Read more

Alcools

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

Narrated by: Christian Olivier

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Et tu bois cet alcool brûlant comme ta vie Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau de vie. Premier recueil de poèmes d'Apollinaire,  Alcools  est publié en 1913, alors que certains poèmes du recueil  ont été  écrits dès 1902. Apollinaire y mêle différents motifs comme la souffrance amoureuse, la mélancolie et le passage du temps, la ville moderne, ou... Read more

Lullabies

By: Lang Leav

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss. Love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Read more

Pond Mountain Tales

By: Ed Gentle

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Pond Mountain Tales” recalls experiences of the author during his eleven-year stay at Pond Mountain, a two-hundred-acre farm, with his first wife, their three sons, and eight dogs. Close encounters with snakes, blue herons, geese, turkeys, and vultures were a daily experience. Three lakes teeming with fish framed a story of the author's... Read more

Ted Hughes

By: Jonathan Bate

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 25 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he... Read more

Memories

By: Lang Leav

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Lang Leav, beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The best of Leav's evocative poetry in a gorgeous package! Read more

A Living Friend

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly & Coleman Barks

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Bly is in beautiful form, reading seven of his own poems from Stealing Sugar from the Castle and Coleman Barks reads some segments from the Shams Tabriz Sayings, as well as Rumi poems.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Poems of the Elder Edda

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, ThomaS Landbo, Matthew Posner ...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Prose Edda, a collection of narrative literature, and its companion, the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and 13th centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex... Read more

B

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it is a family tradition waiting to begin. Read more

SternenBlick

By: Stephanie Mattner

Narrated by: Dr. Tommi Horwath & Rita Hatzmann

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Gut 50 Autorinnen und Autoren wagen in dieser Anthologie ihre ganz persönliche Rückschau zum Thema: Kindheit und Kindsein. Lassen Sie sich verzaubern! Als ein Ausdruck von Liebe zur Poesie, ist dieses Hörbuch aus der Idee gereift, zeitgenössische Dichter und ihre Gedanken hören zu wollen und entwickelte sich zu einem Treffpunkt an dem... Read more

Joy

By: Abigail Santamaria

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis’ shadow, where she has long been hidden, to reveal a powerful writer and thinker.Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis’ memoir A Grief Observed. Now, through extraordinary... Read more

Travelling Tinker Man & Other Rhymes

By: David Essex

Narrated by: David Essex

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

In the 70s he was a huge pop star, with Number 1 hits like 'Rock On' and 'Hold Me Close'. In the 80s and 90s he became a star of the stage with lead roles in Godspell and Mutiny! Now comes a wonderful collection of David Essex's poetry and lyrics. Here are nostalgic poems recalling his family's traveller roots, verses filled with memories of his... Read more

William Shakespeare: 20 Dramen und Komödien

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hören Sie die zwanzig berühmtesten Stücke Shakespeares: Die Dramen: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo und Julia, König Lear, Timon von Athen / Die Komödien: Viel Lärm um nichts, Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der Sturm, Was Ihr wollt, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Der Kaufmann von Venedig, Das Wintermärchen, Maß für Maß, Die Komödie der Irrungen, Ende gut,... Read more

Red Sox Rhymes

By: Dick Flavin

Narrated by: Dick Flavin & Henry Strozier

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox.A commonwealth institution and popular local television personality who is also the announcer, ambassador, and poet laureate for Fenway Park, Dick Flavin has entertained audiences with his incredible poetic talent and... Read more

Wriggle and Roar!

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Justin Fletcher

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever I'm tired of being me
I swing around like a chimpanzee.

Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile and slither like a snake. Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the... Read more

Shuffle and Squelch

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Justin Fletcher

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Kick your boots off, everyone.
Summer's here and so's the sun.

In Shuffle and Squelch there are counting rhymes and animal rhymes, rhymes to make you shuffle and squelch and clatter and patter, and rhymes to make you gallop like a horse or slide down the banister.

From the fabulous picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt and... Read more

Wie es euch gefällt

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Herzog ist von seinem Bruder entmachtet worden und hat im Ardennerwald Zuflucht gesucht. Seine Tochter Rosalinde darf am Hofe bleiben, um Celia, des neuen Herzogs Tochter, Gesellschaft zu leisten. Eines Tages werden beide verbannt, und in Männerkleidung suchen sie Herzog Friedrich im Ardennerwald. Gefahren lauern, und auch die Liebe ist... Read more

Timon von Athen

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Timon von Athen ist ein reicher Mann. Er hat viele Freunde, doch erkennt er bald, dass es falsche Freunde sind, die nur an seinem Geld interessiert sind. Arm geworden, wendet er sich verbittert ab. Eines Tages findet er einen Goldschatz, und er schmiedet einen blutigen Racheplan... Read more

Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Cymbeline ist König von England. Seine Tochter Imogen soll Cloten heiraten - doch sie ist schon vermählt, mit Posthumus, dem gebildetsten Manne Englands. Dieser wird verbannt, und schon droht Gefahr in Person von Iachimo, einem italienischen Kavalier… Read more

Perikles, Fürst von Tyrus

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Perikles ist bei Kaiser Antiochus in Ungnade gefallen, weil er dessen Schandtat erkannt hat, und so flieht er nach Tyrus. Dort heiratet er Thaisa. Auf See bringt sie eine Tochter zur Welt - und stirbt vermeintlich bei der Geburt. Doch auch Marina, die Tochter, bleibt vom Schicksal nicht verschont... Read more

Die beiden Veroneser

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Valentin und Proteus sind Freunde in Verona. Proteus ist in Julia verliebt, Valentin reist nach Mailand, um dort sein Glück zu machen. Er trifft Silvia und verliebt sich in sie. Proteus reist ihm nach und verliebt sich ebenfalls in Silvia. Doch die vergessene Julia gibt nicht auf und reist in Männerkleidung nach Mailand... Read more