Poetry audiobooks

Elizabeth Browning: Poems

By: Elizabeth Browning

Narrated by: Emma Gregory & Megan Gage

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Among all female poets of the English-speaking world in the 19th century, none was held in higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her views than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The many journals which reported Browning's untimely death all spoke of her as the greatest woman poet in English literature. The... Read more

Modern Man

By: Mike Blake

Narrated by: Mike Blake

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern Man ~ Neanderthal with MannersPoem about the comparison of what it is to be a Modern man today. What it may have been yesterday, and what itwas to compare it to our relatively recent ancestors from just a hundred thousand years or so- The Neanderthals.Would they have been as cruel to their fellow beings as possibly we are today. What does... Read more

Places In My Head

By: Paul Ieson

Narrated by: Paul Ieson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a bit of poetry that comes from the best of Paul Ieson's song lyrics that still can be found on the web.All these are from different times in my life and some times they come from a dark place in my life. Enjoy. Read more

unalone

By: Jessica Jacobs

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Make a fence, said the rabbis, around the Torah,” reads the first line of Jessica Jacobs' unalone. By the end of this opening poem, however, Jacobs has defined her engagement with religious texts as an act of devotion to living fully in the world’s complexity: “Here, love, is fruit with the sun still inside it. Let me // thumb the juice from... Read more

Edna St. Vincent Millay Reads Her Poetry

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Narrated by: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 to October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the first woman and second... Read more

Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry

By: Sylvia Plath

Narrated by: Sylvia Plath

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published... Read more

The Art of Biblical Poetry

By: Robert Alter

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond... Read more

El Triangulo de la Felicidad

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Maxi Tissot

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

En esta obra literaria mágica. Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II, un profesor universitario enfermo viaja hacia el pasado para revelar un mundo repleto de historias y poesías, con la esperanza de transmitir lecciones de vida inspiradoras. El profesor, con su chaqueta de tweed arrugada, desaliñado aspecto y fuerte acento británico, es el fiel reflejo del... Read more

Echolocation

By: Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Narrated by: Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As a series, the poems in Echolocation swing back and forth from the natural world keenly observed--rain, birds, sunflowers, even a clam-- to the contortions of the human heart, mostly caused by hurt and loss. And isn't that where the best poetry resides, between the thing and the emotion, the swan and the grief?--BILLY COLLINSEcholocation is a... Read more

Poetry in Equilibrium

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Daniel Dorse

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The fourth and final volume of The Equilibrist series is a compilation of all poems, essays, and fables of the first three books. A precious craft of artful verses that are straightforward, easy to understand. Through art that speaks to all, the author seeks to elicit emotions while provoking reflection. With verses that jump with ease out of... Read more

Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances

By: Richard Cabut

Narrated by: Richard Cabut

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances is a pop meditation on a number of themes: speed, delirium and distance, disillusion, urbanity, various manifestations of the idea of the wilderness and the wasteland, madness, dissolution, memory, mourning, forgetting, hauntology, hauntings, rapid transits, the non-existent, and conjuring the future. The... Read more

Magic In Life

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Daniel Dorse

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid the storied halls of the Royal Cambridge Scholastic Institute, Professor Erasmus Cromwell-Smith—beloved pedagogue, poet, and relentless seeker of truth—finds himself on the brink of a new academic year. Surrounded by antiquarian volumes and the warm presence of Victoria Emerson-Lloyd, the love of his life, he prepares to illuminate the... Read more

Genialidad

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Maxi Tissot

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

En esta cautivadora secuela se entretejen el arte y la poesía junto a una memorable reconstrucción de la vida del profesor Erasmus Cromwell-Smith. Una vez más, desviándose de su programa de clases, Cromwell-Smith lleva a sus estudiantes hacia el apasionante período de su existencia en el cual vivió con el amor de su vida, Victoria Emerson-Lloyd,... Read more

Geniality

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Daniel Dorse

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Geniality, the second volume of The Equilibrist Series, author Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II takes us deeper into the life and mind of Professor Cromwell-Smith and his beloved Victoria. Spanning dormitory gatherings at Harvard, clandestine mentor sessions, and unexpected crossroads of separation and reunion, this narrative unveils how true genius... Read more

La Magia de la Vida

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Maxi Tissot

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

En esta tercera parte de la trilogía El equilibrista, el profesor Erasmus Cromwell-Smith, utilizando el manto de la poesía, lleva a sus alumnos por última vez a su propio pasado, tratando temas con profundo significado existencial, tales como: el perdón, la virtud, la coherencia, la adversidad, la reciprocidad, la curiosidad y la serenidad entre... Read more

The Happiness Triangle

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Daniel Dorse

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid the stately arches of a centuries-old New England campus, a quietly unassuming but brilliant poetry professor delivers the most important lecture of his life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness and determined to leave something lasting behind, he reveals long-guarded secrets gleaned from an extraordinary upbringing among rare books and... Read more

Rudyard Kipling's Poems From The Great War

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Lucy Walker

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

‘If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.’
Discover a collection of Rudyard Kipling’s poems written during the Great War. Depicting the war from the perspective of a patriotic citizen who struggles between his duty to his country and the outrage of the horrors that were coming out of the Western Front. Read more

Letras unidas inspiradas sobre amor

By: Oscar Martínez Montes

Narrated by: IA

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro Letras unidas inspiradas sobre amor es una colección de poe- mas, cartas y canciones que exploran el tema del amor en todas sus facetas. El autor, Oscar Martínez Montes, se inspira en su propia mundología y en la naturaleza que lo rodea para crear una obra que es a la vez personal y universal. El amor, en todas sus formas, es el... Read more

The Snow Storm

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur. By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen... Read more

Hoffnung trägt das gebrochene Herz

By: Anselm Bonies

Narrated by: dreifisch

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Inmitten eines winterlich stillen Waldes begegnet ein Wanderer einer geheimnisvollen Gestalt: eine Maid aus Licht und Erinnerung – zart, gebrochen, und doch leuchtend.„Hoffnung trägt das gebrochene Herz“ ist der erste Teil der Serie „Gedanken des Künstlers“. In diesem poetischen Hörstück verschmelzen Sprache, Bild und Klang zu einer meditativen... Read more

Sweet Words of Life (Christian Inspiration)

By: Fimalia McNoll

Narrated by: Fimalia McNoll

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

I traveled the dirt road with no water in sight.My lips parched and dry from the burning sun.My feet cracked and rough, cut with sharp stones.
I had traveled this road many times.I knew the trail, yet somehow this timeit seemed unfamiliar;All around was desolation, bareness, and emptiness.I was tired of the heat; I cried out to God"Father please... Read more

Now We Are Six

By: A. A. Milne

Narrated by: AnnaLisa Bodtker

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"So wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me." Filled with gentle humor and playful rhythms, this delightful collection of poetry captures the simple joys, adventure, and heartfelt innocence of a child's tender years. Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, and all of their friends show that there is still much magic to be... Read more

Poesia en equilibrio

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Maxi Tissot

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta es la historia detrás de la creación del segundo y tercer volumen de la serie El equilibrista. Mientras escribo la serie, mi intención ha sido crear versos ingeniosos que sean sencillos y fáciles de entender. El énfasis ha estado en el mensaje para evitar que el lector se pierda en las complejidades tradicionales, las métricas, incluso las... Read more

The Orloj of Prague

By: Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

Narrated by: Daniel Dorse

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II's adventure happens inside Prague's astrological clock. Together with a band of five other harlequin-dressed youngsters, he experiences a city filled with wizards, enchanters, witches, conjurers, and evil gargoyles. The youngsters seek clues to reach the mysterious Hradcany Castle and become Wizard Apprentices.... Read more