Poetry audiobooks

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

Narrated by: Jason Rosette

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - as Featured in the Jim Jarmusch Film 'Dead Man', Starring Johnny Depp!A new and strikingly illustrated visual re-interpretation of the classic mystical poetic work by the English poet and printmaker William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' is a must-read for any serious literati or poet. Narrated by... Read more

I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

By: Kendra DeColo

Narrated by: Kendra DeColo

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore. These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through the lens of pop culture... Read more

Auguries of a Minor God

By: Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Narrated by: Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstandingdebut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin' David Wheatley, Guardian Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is... Read more

B. J. Harrison Reads The Scholar-Gypsy

By: Matthew Arnold

Narrated by: B. J. Harrison

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An impoverished Oxford scholar decides to quit his studies and joins a group of gipsies. He absorbs their customs, trades and traditional way of learning. He learns that wisdom is not only to be found in schools and universities. It is among us and it is up to us to open our eyes to it. Matthew Arnold's "The Scholar Gipsy" reminds us of this. Read more

Mutiny

By: Phillip B. Williams

Narrated by: Phillip B. Williams

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 American Book Award
Finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 
Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Finalist for Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by The Boston Globe and Lit Hub

From the critically acclaimed author of Thief in the Interior who writes with "a... Read more

If

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Sam Kusi

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

"If-" is a timeless classic, a masterpiece about keeping your balance in a topsy-turvy world and maintaining personal integrity. A phenomenal poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson, it is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. Among other nuggets, it advocates... Read more

The Gododdin

By: Gillian Clarke

Narrated by: Ceri Wyn Jones & Gillian Clarke

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition. The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles, only to... Read more

Firm of Step

By: Lorraine Ansell

Narrated by: Lorraine Ansell

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Firm of Step” is a collection of words that have come together after four seasons of experience. Each short poem features unpolished stones that can only shine once you have read them.

Formed from daily life, Lorraine Ansell, has shaped characters into form and re-arranged them into stories. Short and perfectly formed into the paragraphs and... Read more

Vida en Marte

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

En Vida en Marte, reconocido por el New York Times Book Reviewcomo uno de los poemarios más destacados del 2001 y galardonado en 2012 con el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer de Poesía, Tracy K. Smith imagina una banda sonora para el universo.

Su poesía, con referencias tomadas de David Bowie y de la ciencia ficción, acompaña a los hallazgos y fallos... Read more

Verdades a medias

By: India Martínez

Narrated by: India Martínez

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

La gran artista India Martínez nos muestra en su primer libro sus emociones más íntimas a través un precioso conjunto de textos relatados con sensibilidad y emoción. «La verdad es muy subjetiva, depende de la piel que la percibe». Verdades a medias es una colección de textos poéticos en los que la cantante India Martínez indaga en lo más... Read more

Terraform

By: Propaganda

Narrated by: Propaganda

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Performed by Propaganda and featuring four exclusive original songs.In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world.“If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible.”In this deep, challenging,... Read more

Threads

By: Laurence McKeown

Narrated by: Laurence McKeown

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurence McKeown almost died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh/Maze Prison in the North of Ireland following 70 days on hunger strike in 1981. In later years he helped facilitate poetry workshops in the prison and co-founded a prisoners magazine. In this, his debut collection of poems, written both during his incarceration and in subsequent years,... Read more

Poetic Vines

By: Adrian Morton

Narrated by: Adrian Morton

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful collection for those moments when only a poem will do as a wise word or advice that can offer comfort when you are sad and lonely or when you need motivation or the inspirational power to manifest your dreams, hopes or desires.Parables and poems are those little pebbles that reach into your soul without offending your senses and... Read more

If Only I Were Me

By: Jade dee & Wilnona Marie

Narrated by: Jo Sands

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Looking back is often like looking in a mirror, all the imperfections are obvious. This is the journey of how two women look back saw their past reflections and use them to do good. How they managed to smooth out the path ahead. How they reconcile themselves with who they are and who they will be. Every path has a crossroad and finding the peace... Read more

Vulnerable AF

By: Tarriona Ball

Narrated by: Tarriona Ball

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!

The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.
The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told in verse and short prose pieces. Relatable and honest, with Tank's signature mix of whimsy... Read more

Soft Thorns Vol. II

By: Bridgett Devoue

Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridgett Devoue takes you on a journey into the transformative world of love, lust, heartbreak, and abuse, and discovers the steps to finding lessons within pain.
why does love become abusive? and when does pain become a lesson?

Soft Thorns Vol. II is the continuation of author Bridgett Devoue’s debut poetry collection Soft Thorns and picks up on... Read more

Soft Thorns

By: Bridgett Devoue

Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The poetry living within these pages tells stories of love, heartbreak, freedom, oppression, sexual assault, sexism, hope, and humanity.  Our darkest times are where we grow the most, so in this book, i share mine, and together we learn how to heal.

Soft Thorns is a poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey through a young woman’s... Read more

Soft Thorns: The Audiobook Collection

By: Bridgett Devoue

Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A spoken word poetry collection for dreamers who crave to explore the unknown, through one young woman’s exploration of her darkest times and her path towards healing.
Bridgett Devoue’s poetry takes the listener on a journey into the world of love, lust, heartbreak, abuse, and the lessons learned along the way. This collection combines the... Read more

Cantar de cantares de Salomón

By: Fray Luis de Leon

Narrated by: Hector Amenara

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro El Cantar de los Cantares fue incorporado a la Biblia como el más bello poema de amor vivido por el rey Salomón y la hija del Faraón, acompañados por el coro de sus compañeros. A mediados del siglo XVI fray Luis de León tradujo el original hebreo, palabra a palabra, atendiendo solo a la «corteza de la letra», convencido de que cuanto... Read more

La colina que ascendemos

By: Amanda Gorman

Narrated by: Amanda Alcántara & Ilia Calderón

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

LA VOZ DE UNA NUEVA ERA NÚMERO 1 EN VENTAS EN ESTADOS UNIDOS ELEGIDA UNA DE LAS 100 PERSONAS QUE SERÁN MÁS INFLUYENTES EN EL FUTURO SEGÚN LA REVISTA TIME Prólogo de Oprah Winfrey Ante la mirada de un mundo sobrecogido tras la invasión del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos, Amanda Gorman tomó la palabra a continuación del presidente Joe Biden.... Read more

Shakespeare's Sonnets ( Unabridged )

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of several years. Read more

Leaves of Grass ( Unabridged )

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass. Originally published in 1855, the work started as a collection of 12 unnamed poems. However, Whitman spent most of his life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, resulting in many different editions published throughout... Read more

The Ballad of the White Horse ( Unabridged )

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: David Pevsner

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in the river island of Athelney fills Alfred with joy and hope. Though it gives no promise of victory... Read more

I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Kate Baer

Narrated by: Kate Baer

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times BestsellerThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors—an artform that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires readers to transform what is ugly or painful in their own... Read more