Poetry audiobooks

Otto Sander liest Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachmim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Otto Sander

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wenn es einen unübertroffenen Ringelnatz-Interpreten gibt, dann ist es Otto Sander. In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat er DIE maßgeblichen Interpretationen von Ringelnatz-Gedichten und Erzählungen gelesen. Erstmals erscheinen sie nun in einer zusammenfassenden Ausgabe – mit den besten, den bewegendsten, den kinder-verwirrendsten,... Read more

Los elementos de la noche - Abridged

By: José Emilio Pacheco

Narrated by: Javier Aranda Luna

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando A mitad de la noche la vida parece encontrar su desenlace, pero es justo en la mayor oscuridad cuando comienza a manifestarse la luz que precede al amanecer: ese momento en que las tinieblas quedan atrás y emerge el día con la incertidumbre propia de un nuevo... Read more

El reposo del fuego - Abridged

By: José Emilio Pacheco

Narrated by: Javier Aranda Luna

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando El fuego -en continua mutación- es el verdadero espejo de nuestro ser. Su forma evidencia su movimiento perpetuo. Valeidoso, inconstante, todo lo transmuta; devenir que todo lo consume con su eterno apetito voraz. Si vien gue Heráclito quien a través del pensamiento... Read more

The Knotsman - Abridged

By: Math Jones

Narrated by: Math Jones

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Knotsman does not exist, you will not find him in history books or collections of 'bygone' skills. But Math Jones has created him, and his fellows, in a time very like the English Civil War. There he is, going from house to house, village to village, battlefield to gallows, unravelling knots and problems, physical, emotional and... Read more

The Ultimate Classical Poetry Collection - Abridged

By: Henri Cazalis, Rupert Brooke & Samuel Taylor Co...

Narrated by: Richard Burton, Bart Wolffe & Emma Topping

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A wonderful collection of classic poetry enhanced by music including The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Danse Macabre and Goblin Market. Read more

A Rare Recording of TS Eliot Reading His Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: TS Eliot

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was an American-British poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also... Read more

Vivienne and the Reaper - Abridged

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson & The Mortal Coil players

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

originally written as separate poems for contests on allpoetry.com I tacked them together to make this epic the story in verse of the Life and death of Vivienne and the Reaper, Incidentally, the first part is told by the unnamed Jack Taylor who has a bigger part in the later version of Vivienne and the Reaper and appears in my Magicians series... Read more

Vivienne - Abridged

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson & The Mortal Coil Players

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

originally written as separate poems for contests on allpoetry.com I tacked them together to make this epic the story in verse of the Life and Death of Vivienne and the Reaper is part of the story. Read more

A Rare Recording of Anne Sexton Reading Her Poem "Wanting To Die" - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Anne Sexton

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Anne Sexton, born Anne Gray Harvey, (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life,... Read more

A Rare Recording of Allen Ginsburg Reading His Poem "America" - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Allen Ginsburg

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997), born in Newark NJ, was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual... Read more

يوجد الكثير مثلك حول العالم - Abridged

By: مجد البصيلي

Narrated by: منار مراد

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

يوجد الكثير مثلك حول العالم تأليف: مجد البصيلي دليل المرشد السياحي كتاب تخصصي موجه لمرشدي المتاحف والمراكز العلمية ليساهم في تثقيف المجتمع و التواصل معه ، و ليسد النقص في المكتبة العربية في هذا المجال، حيث قسمت المؤلفة الكتاب الى اربعة اقسام تناولت فيها تجربتها الشخصية في هذا المجال، ووضعت ارشادات و نصائح لمن يريد العمل في هذا المجال، و طرحت... Read more

Encontrará nada - Abridged

By: M.J. Pradera

Narrated by: Alicia Muñoz

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una experiencia de juventud que actúa como vacuna para el desamor, aunque no acabe de inmunizar contra los imposibles Un poemario que se inició en la primavera de 2020 durante el estado de alarma de la pandemia mundial, cuando charlar con otras personas se puso difícil y la autora, en lugar de aprovechar la situación para descansar, se puso a... Read more

Chasing Down the Dawn - Abridged

By: Jewel

Narrated by: Jewel

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to a world set to the ever-changing rhythms of an artist's lifeIn Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the people, places, and relationships that colored the life she came from and have marked this past magical, turbulent, and ultimately... Read more

Poemas de Edgar Allan Poe - Abridged

By: Ángel Ferrer

Narrated by: Ángel Ferrer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta pequeña antología de Edgar Allan Poe, recoge, a mi modo de ver, los poemas más mágicos del autor. Es sabido que todos los poetas, durante su carrera, escriben poemas por oficio. Lo que quiere decir que no todos obedecen a las leyes naturales de la belleza, a la pulsión del poeta. Por esto, esta selección, son un fiel reflejo del mundo de... Read more

Theodor Storm: Die große Gedichte Box - Abridged

By: Theodor Storm

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

240 Gedichte von Theodor Storm, einem der wichtigsten Vertreter des poetischen Realismus. Liebesgedichte, Balladen, historische Gedichte, Alltagsweisheiten verpackt in Reime – immer elegant verfertigt, immer wohltuend zu hören. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-File mit der Titelliste aller Gedichte. Read more

Es war, als hätt der Himmel die Erde still geküsst. - Abridged

By: Ulrich Maske, Heinrich Heine, Rio Reiser, Masch...

Narrated by: Stephan Schad, Julia Nachtmann & Rosa Thormeyer

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine einzigartige Sammlung an Gedichten aus fünf Jahrhunderten, in denen der Mond als heimlicher Star, einsamer Held, als Tröster oder auch stiller Beobachter auftritt. In dieser abwechslungsreichen Zusammenstellung werden romantische, fantastische, klassische und popkulturelle Verse gelungen kuratiert und durch unverwechselbare Stimmen zum... Read more

Routes - Abridged

By: Rhiya Pau

Narrated by: Farhana Kalique

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto? Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba's kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on... Read more

Irgendwo mit dir - Abridged

By: Florian Bald

Narrated by: Hans Ruchti, Heike Warmuth, Richard Barenberg, ...

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1 Tag. 4 Zeilen. 2 Reime. Am Anfang dieses Hörbuchs stand ein ehrgeiziger Neujahrsvorsatz: Ein Jahr in 365 Gedichten. Kein Vorausdichten, kein Hinterherschreiben, kein Aussetzen. Jeder Tag so dumm, klug, lustig, traurig, bewegend oder banal, wie er eben war. Wäre das durchzuhalten? Die Antwort: Es war. Und eine Auswahl der... Read more

Los trabajos del mar - Abridged

By: José Emilio Pacheco

Narrated by: Javier Aranda Luna

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poemas escritos entre 1979 y 1983, se trata de la bitácora de un sobreviviente de la tempestad que fue el siglo XX. «Todo es efímero y jamás se repite», afirma José Emilio Pacheco para recordarnos la brevedad de nuestro tránsito por la tierra. Asumimos que «el mar se habrá cambiado en desierto / cuando ya no [estemos] aquí para mirarlo y... Read more

POEMAS ENCONTRASTE - Abridged

By: Leonor de Aquitania, José Fernando Dicenta, Efr...

Narrated by: Jesús Isarrarás Gutiérrez & Jaime Hernández

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jesús Isarraras es uno de los mejores declamadores de México. A través de sus Poemas en Contraste nos acerca con alta sensibilidad a poetas que igual nos mueven al amor, a la denuncia social, a la pasión, a la ternura y también, por supuesto, a la risa. Ahí está Borges, Cardenal, Efraín Huerta, haciendo el contraste con Chava Flores y Luis M.... Read more

Faust uff klassisch Hessisch - Abridged

By: Dieter Schneider

Narrated by: Dieter Schneider

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Goethes Faust und weitere seiner Gedichte hat Dieter Schneider in seine hessische Mundart übertragen. Beim Hören dieser CD könnte man meinen Faust erst auf hessisch ist der wahre Pudels Kern. Read more

Dass sie mich liebt, das sagt sie nicht - Abridged

By: Peter Hacks

Narrated by: Christian Steyer

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Liebesgedichte von Peter Hacks als Hörbuch Hier wird die Liebe gefeiert, die Sinnlichkeit, der Genuss. Vom "Glückbereiten / im Wechselspiel der Gleichbeschaffenheiten", von der "heitren Täuschung gutgemeinter Lügen", von der Bedingungslosigkeit des Gefühls geht die poetische Rede: "Frage nicht, ob Liebe lohnet, / frage alles, nur... Read more

This Poem Here - Abridged

By: Rob Walton

Narrated by: Sean Patterson

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Rob Walton went into lockdown, he didn't know that he would also go into mourning. Here he writes about the life and death of his dad, and how sadness seeped into various aspects of his life. He also manages to find cheap laughs, digs at the government, celebrations of the young and old, unashamed sentimentality and suddenly disarming... Read more

Clowns & Acrobats - Abridged

By: Seamus Cashman

Narrated by: Seamus Cashman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How close are we to myth, race memory? Do they infiltrate our minds?Seamus Cashman's new collection, Clowns & Acrobats, swerves headily into a modern world of questionings, parenthood, relationships, conscience and death, while eyeing the poet;s close personal sense of history and celebratory myth. The exercise of power, the eccentricity of... Read more