Poetry audiobooks

Ich hebe meine Augen in die Welt

By: Alfred Lichtenstein

Narrated by: Barbara Wittmann & Detlef Bierstedt

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Wittmann und Detlef Bierstedt interpretieren schrille Gedichte und einen grotesken Prosatext des großen Frühexpressionisten Alfred Lichtenstein: Es sind Porträts von Trinkern, grauen Clowns, Irren, Huren und Rummelplatzgestalten, von himmelblauen Exzentrikern, unschuldigen Kindern, parfümierten Pudeln und "eigen schauenden Frauen", von... Read more

Poèmes saturniens

By: Paul Verlaine

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

En 1866 parait Poèmes saturniens, tout premier recueil de Verlaine. Le poète maudit est alors âgé de 22 ans. Le titre évoque les astres et plus particulièrement Saturne, planète de la mélancolie qui inspire le poète dans le premier texte du recueil. Read more

Chasers of the Light

By: Tyler Knott Gregson

Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.

One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to... Read more

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

By: Kei Miller

Narrated by: Kei Miller

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it (‘I never get involved / with the muddy affairs of land'), is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this... Read more

Die göttliche Komödie

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Dirk Glodde

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Voltaire genoss Dante den höchsten Ruhm, den man als Dichter überhaupt erklimmen konnte. Dieser war nämlich berühmt, ohne das man ihn großartig gelesen hätte. Dantes "Göttliche Komödie" ist in den Schatz der Menschheit mehr oder weniger durch Hörensagen eingegangen. Immerhin haben sich zahlreiche Deutsche an eine Übersetzung gewagt, wobei... Read more

Der Mensch und das Meer

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Das dichterische Hauptwerk Baudelaires handelt vom Großstadtmenschen und dessen Ennui, einer mit Widerwillen, Unlust und Verdruss verbundenen Entfremdung gegenüber dem Dasein. Read more

Neon Aliens Ate My Homework

By: Nick Cannon

Narrated by: Nick Cannon

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Nick Cannon, entertainer extraordinaire, debuts his poetry book for children.Nick Cannon---the unstoppable entertainer, comedian, actor, and musician---was inspired to write Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems as a way to combine the worlds of poetry and hip-hop. These two mediums have shaped Nick... Read more

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Caroline Kennedy

Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Viola Davi...

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it...All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words". Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in... Read more

Introducing George The Poet

By: George the Poet

Narrated by: George the Poet

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The title is Search Party – the idea being that we’re all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.’

A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm – George The Poet is the voice of a new... Read more

Life’s Rhymes for Our Times

By: B. D. Mullins

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about a passion for writing. The poems contained herein are a selection of many which I have written. They are a variety of many places of the mind and in our times. Throughout the years I have been in contact with some special people and some special places. I have been offered a rare opportunity to be a part of recording things as... Read more

Valentines

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators, Susan Anspach, Stephanie Bea...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic love poetryComposed by many of the world’s best known and most celebrated poets—including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, and others—Valentines spans not only the ages, but the full range of passionate expression of love in all its forms and... Read more

Les fables de La Fontaine, l'intégrale

By: Jean de la Fontaine

Narrated by: Valérie Théodore

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

" Je me sers d'animaux pour instruire les hommes ". Les trois recueils des Fables de la Fontaine font le plus souvent intervenir des animaux anthropomorphes pour amener à une morale juste et pleine de sagesse. Read more

The flowers of Evil

By: Baudelaire

Narrated by: Stuart Walker

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Fairies" is a classic folk tale by Charles Perrault. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was often mistaken for her mother, so like her was she both in nature and in looks. Both of them were so disagreeable and arrogant that no one could live with them. The younger girl, who was a true likeness of her father... Read more

T.S. Eliot reading poems

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: T.S. Eliot

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sleep problem is the number one problem for a growing number of men and women in our country. American worker productivity is high and continues to rise. According to a cross-national study released earlier this year by the International Labor Organization, American workers are the most productive in the world. This very high productivity at... Read more

Intuitions

By: Karl Kevin Smith

Narrated by: Gabe Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I like to observe and think before I write.
I try to be as creative as I can be when I do this. And I try to keep it real.
It is because I believe in conveying my thoughts
in that manner. Read more

Diesem Vaterland nicht meine Knochen

By: Peter Hacks

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Esche beherrschte virtuos den Wechsel vom Eleganten ins Freche, vom Groben ins Zarte, vom Strengen ins Verspielte, vom komischen in den hohen Ton. Diese CD ist ein besonderer Leckerbissen für die Freunde von Esches Vortragskunst. Das lyrische Werk von Peter Hacks ist vielgestaltig. Nach dem zuletzt erschienenen Band der Liebesgedichte ("Heile... Read more

Das Schöne an der Liebe

By: Gisela Steineckert

Narrated by: Gisela Steineckert

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Schöne an der Liebe ist, daß es sie gibt. Wer nicht furchtbar geliebt hat, hat nicht herrlich gelebt. Liebe kann ein Heimweg sein oder in Welten führen, die man besser nicht gesehen oder wenigstens früher verlassen hätte. In der Liebe liegen uns die richtigen Worte auf der Zunge, aber einen Augenblick zu spät heißt, eine Ewigkeit vertun.... Read more

"Der Zauberlehrling"

By: Eberhard Esche

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brillanz, Schärfe und Gegenwärtigkeit, die nichts gemein hat mit platter Aktualisierung, kennzeichnen Eberhard Esches Interpretation klassischer deutscher Balladen und Gedichte. Esche zieht den Zuhörer einvernehmlich, ja zutraulich in den Text, um ihm unversehens den Boden geläufiger Deutungen zu nehmen, spricht Gefälliges ungefällig,... Read more

Faust I+II - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Fred Düren, Jörg Gudzuhn & Dieter Mann

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mephisto und Faust - Goethes Faust I und II als Zweierbeziehung Eine der bedeutendsten, in jeder Hinsicht spektakulären Rollen Fred Dürens war der Faust in der legendären Inszenierung von Adolf Dresen und Wolfgang Heinz im Jahr 1968. Aus der Frage, wie Düren den Faust wohl heute spielen würde, entstand der Plan, der Auffassung von einem jungen... Read more

Antología poética - Abridged

By: Jorge Debravo

Narrated by: Estudios Centroacústica

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jorge Debravo es uno de los poetas más reconocidos, publicados y estudiados de la literatura costarricense. Esta antología en versión audiolibro compila algunos de los poemas más representativos de su obra. De su obra poética se ha destacado su creatividad, su fe en el ser y en los valores humanos, su poder comunicativo a partir de un lenguaje... Read more

Poetry Please

By: Various Poets

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Anton Lesser

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.

The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its authority and always fresh in its vivid rendering... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could do it better." — Wall Street Journal

Robert Fitzgerald's... Read more

O, What a Luxury

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In his second collection of poetry (the first 77 Love Sonnets) Keillor writes—with his characteristic combination of humor and insight—on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily life. Keillor’s verses are charming and playful, locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human. Read more