Poetry audiobooks

The Inferno of Dante

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart & Louise Glück

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon... Read more

Meisterwerke erotischer Dichtung - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Jürgen Goslar

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meisterwerke erotischer Dichtung: Über die Lust und Wollust in der Verskunst der Dichter! Die erotischsten, zärtlichsten, wollüstigsten, aber auch lustigsten Gedichte aller Zeiten! Mit Werken von Walter von der Vogelweide, Giovanni Boccaccio, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wilhelm Busch bis hin zu Frank Wedekind! Unnachahmlich... Read more

Ramayana

By: Valmiki

Narrated by: Sita Ramamurthy

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical retelling of one of the most important Hindu texts. Read more

Growls and Utterances

By: Bart Wolffe

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of poetry exploring themes to inspire and provoke. Read more

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

By: Kevin Powers

Narrated by: Kevin Powers

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.

National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life:... Read more

Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Mary Oliver

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in... Read more

Gitanjali: Gedichte - Abridged

By: Rabindranath Tagore

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gitanjali bedeutet "Sangesopfer". Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1919), bengalischer Dichter, geboren in Kalkutta, erhielt für diese Gedichtsammlung als erster Asiate den Literaturnobelpreis (1913). In über einhundert Gedichten präsentiert sich der Erzähler als Suchender, der das Kommen der freundlichen Gottheit erwartet, und schildert gleichzeitig... Read more

The Autobiography of William McGonagall

By: William Topaz McGonagall

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his discordant muse is hugely popular all over the world - no less a figure than Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever?He didn't discover he... Read more

Poésies lues par Jean Vilar

By: Victor Hugo & Verlaine

Narrated by: Jean Vilar

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

28 textes, 19 auteurs, fleurons de la poésie française, représentent la beauté et la pérennité de la littérature. Jean Vilar, qui a toujours donné au Théâtre National Populaire une place prépondérante à la poésie, se révèle un guide sûr dont le grand talent éclaire pour nous les chemins de la poésie française. Les 28 poèmes : Charles d'Orléans :... Read more

Rab the Rhymer

By: Robert Burns

Narrated by: David Rintoul, Vivien Heilbron, Adrian Chandler...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed actors David Rintoul and Vivien Heilbron and eminent musicians Mhairi Lawson and Adrian Chandler present not only Burns' greatest hits, but also a selection of his lesser-known, yet fascinating works. Together these provide a comprehensive overview of his prodigious and versatile genius. Divided into four thematic sections ('Love',... Read more

You and Yours

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and... Read more

Avon's Harvest

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"In ""Avon's Harvest,"" Edwin Arlington Robinson devotes the majority of the book to one long narrative poem of the same title, which tells the story of how a man's life was destroyed by the slow canker of an unreasoning hatred he formed as a young man, and of a sudden act of violence that flared out of it. Robinson's wields his sparse, simple,... Read more

The Poetry of Wales

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive collection of poetry celebrating Wales including contributions by W. H. David, Edward Thomas and Aneurin. Read more

Poetry of the British Isles

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

A delightful selection of poetry from around the British Isles including 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold, 'Leisure' by W. H. Auden and 'To Autumn' by John Keats. Including classic recordings by acclaimed actors Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Burton. Read more

Drum-Taps

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered to be a valuable testimony of the suffering of the American Civil War, in this collection, American Poet Walt Whitman drew from his experiences in the field hospitals. Read more

Aimless Love

By: Billy Collins

Narrated by: Billy Collins

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Includes 5 additional poems only available on the digital download.

“Billy Collins puts the ‘fun’ back in ‘profundity.’ ”—Alice Fulton

From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines new poems with selections from four... Read more

Walt Whitman's Selected Poems - Abridged

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Brian Murray

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection, narrated by distinguished Broadway actor Brian Murray, includes nine poems from Leaves of Grass—among them "I Hear America Singing", "O Captain! My Captain", and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d", plus four other selections. Read more

Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig & Miriam Margolyes

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times


REVOLTING RHYMES

Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think... Read more

Reclaimed

By: Ray Cook

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“I kept reading until the end. It was life affirming, exciting, hot, and new. It has everything so many people would love.” —Zach Book, Producer, Director, Actor “Ray Cook has an innate ability to tell his story with a wonderful artistry that keeps the reader connected, engaged, and fascinated in the revealing chapters of his colorful... Read more

After the Fire

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: J. A. Jance

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeatBefore she found fame as a bestselling mystery... Read more

Three Taverns

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of dramatic narratives, Robinson explores his key interests: character and man's confrontation with the rocks and hard places of human existence. He gives us a fascinating piece of alternate history: a dialogue between Alexander Hamlton and Aaron Burr, testing who will betray and who will resist. He gives that bitter old man,... Read more

Lancelot

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"The beautiful, elegant, hearbreakingly sad story of Lancelot, Guinevere and Arthur is Ediwn Arlington Robinson's subject in his 1920 novella in verse, ""Lancelot."" His focus throughout is is on one side of the triangle, that of Lancelot and Guinevere. As in his previous Arthurian poem, ""Merlin,"" he does not give us Malory's tales of jousts... Read more

Merlin

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"In ""Merlin,"" Edwin Arlington Robinson delves into the minds and hearts of a gallery of characters from the story Camelot: Gawaine, Bedivere, Lamorak; Arthur himself; his fool, Sir Dagonet, and most importantly, Merlin himself and the woman he loves, Vivian. He places the action at the moment when Guinevere and Lancelot have fled to Joyeux... Read more

The Man Against the Sky

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"In The Man Against The Sky, Edwin Arlington Robinson presents us with a gallery of characters drawn from the streets, homes and gathering places of Tilbury Town, his fictional Northeastern dwelling place. A mysterious compelling stranger, a woman living on charity, a welcoming home - this and other portraits give us a compelling and perceptive... Read more