Poetry audiobooks

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

Narrated by: Tommy Pico

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

All Along You Were Blooming

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection of poetry and prose invites you to stumble into the sunlight and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given.Popular Instagram poet and bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols gives you... Read more

War Music

By: Christopher Logue

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.“Your life at every instant up for― / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,” writes Christopher... Read more

The Waste Land - Read by T.S. Eliot

By: T.S. Eliot

Narrated by: Ron Eastwood

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot’s poetry. It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterises and reveals the voices... Read more

The Tale of a Niggun

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: John Rubinstein & Elisha Wiesel

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Elie Wiesel’s heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song. Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II.
 
It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto’s leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hanged to “avenge” the deaths of the ten sons of... Read more

Writing in the Shower

By: Bonnie Weiss

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet Bonnie Weiss presents a collection of stories and poems filled with vivid memories, halfway between verse and prose. Her words are honest, sensitive, and profound but also sometimes humorous, sometimes deep. The style is lyrical and deceptively simple as she presents the incredible power of love and the pain of loss. In this evocative and... Read more

Lee Su Poesia

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Pablo Neruda

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of Neruda's best poetry read by the author in Spanish on one cassette. Read more

The Essential T.S. Eliot

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: T. S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Wi...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart,  Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith,... Read more

La Odisea (Versión íntegra sin abreviar)

By: Homero

Narrated by: Ely Garcia

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Embárcate en un asombroso viaje lleno de aventuras y peligros con La Odisea, la legendaria epopeya de Homero. Esta versión sin abreviar te sumergirá en el mundo fascinante de Ulises mientras emprende su viaje de regreso a casa tras la guerra de Troya.
Con una narración cautivadora y una calidad de voz impecable, este audiolibro te transportará a... Read more

My Baby First Birthday

By: Jenny Zhang

Narrated by: Jenny Zhang

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce... Read more

Prince Neptune

By: Cody R. Simpson

Narrated by: Cody R. Simpson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.
Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, Prince... Read more

Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known mainly for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural and is an acknowledged master of these genres, he thought of himself primarily as a poet. Here is a collection of over thirty of his poems including two of the best known “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” Read more

The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The narrator is in deep sorrow, mourning his lost love and is slowly sinking into despair when he is visited by a talking raven from whom he seeks comfort and hope but whose only utterance is a single portentous word - “nevermore.” Read more

Favourite Classic Poems

By: Various

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

A collection of favourite classic poems by some of our best loved poets including Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Love Peacock, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne and others. Read more

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” was written by Oscar Wilde in France where he was in exile after his release from Reading Gaol. Wilde had been imprisoned and sentenced to two years hard labour. A hanging took place while Wilde was incarcerated and the poem is the narrative of the execution. Read more

Poems

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 1 hour 23 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 was not always popular in his own time but is now considered one of the foremost poets of Victorian England. This volume contains some of the best of the monologues including “Porphyria's Lover”,... 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

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

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

By: William Blake

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The “Songs of Innocence” were published in 1789 and republished in 1794 together with the “Songs of Experience”. They represent Blake's two perspectives on the world, that of the child (innocence) and that of the adult (experience). Blake's poetical works were largely neglected in their own time but are today considered some of the most... Read more

Dear God

By: Bunmi Laditan

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Are you looking to strengthen your relationship with God? Do you find yourself untangling the threads of what it is you really believe? Are you longing for a deeper connection to your spiritual side? Bunmi Laditan has been in your shoes.In the midst of her darkest days, Bunmi began writing down her deepest fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations... Read more

After Fame

By: Sam Riviere

Narrated by: Sam Riviere

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I. Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the source material through a variety of 'treatments' - most notably machine translation (for which Latin still presents near-insurmountable difficulties), employing the results... Read more

Comment nous sommes nés

By: Carole David

Narrated by: Carole David

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ils forment une «parade clinquante», ce sont «des armes dangereuses, un baiser / à retardement». Enfants réels ou allégoriques, ils disparaissent sous nos yeux. Pour les attraper au moment crucial, Comment nous sommes nés déploie ses phrases amples, ses vers durs, monnaie qui brille au fond de la fontaine. Suspendus entre ciel et terre, entre... Read more

Out Of The Shadows Of Shame

By: Elexcia Smith

Narrated by: Elexcia Smith

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is for everyone. Everyone has had ups and downs. We all have had laughs and cries. We’ve had our good days and bad days. This book is to let people know that you can get back up, even when you fall. Even if you feel this is the worst thing you have ever done. I have been there and done that. Yeshua loves us even through our mess. Read more

مجنونة قيس - Majnonat Kayes

By: ابتسام الحمري

Narrated by: Sarah Shalaby

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ديوان شعري تصب كل نصوصه في مجرى الحب والشوق والغربة التي يخلفها غياب الحبيب. وقد يصل شعور الغربة إلى الجنون حيث الضياع واللظى.. اختارت شاعرتنا ابتسام أن تحاكي قيسها وتكون هي ليلاه، كي تجر معه أذيال الخيبة التي تصيب هذا الحب جراء الغيابات الساحقة لهما.. فأحيانا تواسيه في الغربة وأحيانا تجعله هو وطنها الأصلي وأحيانا أخرى تتمرد على الغربة الملعونة... Read more