Poetry audiobooks

Platero y yo

By: Juan Ramón Jiménez

Narrated by: Donelle Stuhlhofer & Javier Martínez

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

En este archivo encontrará la portada para caja de CD y DVD, así como el diseño para el disco. Read more

POETIC TIDES

By: Adriuan Morton & Adrian Morton

Narrated by: Adrian Morton

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

I will listen I will lookThen it winds up in a bookTime and observation's all it tookLife is like a drawing boardOn the wall my thoughts are storedNothing is forgotten or ignoredJoining dots, threading stringPuzzled pieces time will bringEmerging then this thingI write it down before its lostMemory is all it costOnto a paper then its tossed Read more

A Quiet Time with John Rayburn

By: John Rayburn

Narrated by: John Rayburn

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran broadcaster John Rayburn here combines philosophy, poetry, inspiration, motivation, and touches of humor to provide comfort, cheer, and encouragement. This audiobook is an opportunity to collect your thoughts and set aside a few moments for contemplation in a busy, busy world. Read more

Feel Your Way Through

By: Kelsea Ballerini

Narrated by: Kelsea Ballerini

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The personal and poignant debut poetry collection from the award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer revolves around the emotions, struggles, and experiences of finding your voice and confidence as a woman.
 
“I’ve realized that some feelings can’t be turned into a song . . . so I’ve started writing poems. Just like my... Read more

Selected Poems

By: Ai Qing

Narrated by: David Shih, Nancy Wu & Robert Dorsett

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei

One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped... Read more

Acrobat

By: Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Narrated by: Nandana Sen

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature

A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both... Read more

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

★ "Van Camp composes a lyrical ode to a newborn child, which is matched in its loveliness by Flett's exquisite, collage-like images of a young one with his or her parents.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for... Read more

We Sang You Home / kikî-kîwê-nikamôstamâtinân

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful welcome and a thank you to the Indigenous child who brings joy into the parents’ lives.”—School Library Journal In this sweet and lyrical picture book from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world. Internationally renowned storyteller... Read more

Welcome Song for Baby / Ni Nikamon ‘Tawâw Nipepîmis’

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Christian Down & Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned storyteller Richard Van Camp comes a lyrical lullaby for newborns. Orca Book Publishers is pleased to offer this bilingual book (full text in both English and Plains Cree) in two accessible editions. The audiobook features alternate text descriptions of images, including the cover. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible. Read more

The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot, read by Edoardo Ballerini Centenary Edition To mark the centenary of the publication of The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber, in association with the T. S. Eliot Foundation, commissioned this new recording of T. S. Eliot's major poems, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. Ballerini is... Read more

Kahlil Gibran: Selected Works

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: John Rayburn

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The words of Kahlil Gibran give his book The Prophet a broad range of inspiration and philosophy. They provide exceptional insight into human desires and understanding. The vivid observations are vibrant with feeling and acceptance of life’s many questions and hopes. One review saluted the story as being untouched by the harshness of life.... Read more

The Life

By: Carrie Fountain

Narrated by: Carrie Fountain

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful and wise poems

The poems in Carrie Fountain’s third collection, The Life, exist somewhere, as Rilke says, between “our daily life” and “the great work”—an interstitial space where sidelong glances live alongside shouts to heaven. In elegant yet colloquial... Read more

And We Rise

By: Erica Martin

Narrated by: Erica Martin

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse.

In stunning verse, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement—from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with... Read more

This Atmosphere of Love

By: Franklin Bass Jr.

Narrated by: David Brower

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

I would like to thank my special lady and the people in my community for all their inspiration in the writing of this book. God Bless You All. Read more

Thunderbird

By: Dorothea Lasky

Narrated by: Dorothea Lasky

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los Angeles"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."—Julia Bloch, Bitch"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her... Read more

If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep

By: Joe Wenderoth

Narrated by: Joe Wenderoth

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesWhether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection, If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep, resonates with his signature intellect and disturbing humor. He is at once an aesthete and an iconoclast who brings inventive force to American... Read more

The Cloud Corporation

By: Timothy Donnelly

Narrated by: Timothy Donnelly

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesTimothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, the long-awaited second collection by Columbia University professor and poetry editor of Boston Review, is an absolute tour de force, fully investing itself in the possibilities of language and intelligence—by way of a traditional and abiding faith in poetry—to illuminate the... Read more

Language Arts

By: Cedar Sigo

Narrated by: Cedar Sigo

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesLanguage Arts, like Cedar Sigo, is playfully spontaneous. Sigo uses poetry as a way to record his own adventures as a reader, traveler, lover, poet, friend, and he welcomes the reader to share the experience. The pleasure he gets in writing these poems is infectious, and the resulting collection is absorbing for its... Read more

Thing Music

By: Anthony McCann

Narrated by: Anthony McCann

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesThing Music is full of flesh, of creatures tangled in their worlds. Marked variously by the desert and coastal landscapes of Southern California and the intersections of phenomenology and anarchism, these poems are porous bodies, traversed by light and noise. Read more

One Morning—

By: Rebecca Wolff

Narrated by: Rebecca Wolff

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesPoet, novelist, and Fence founder Rebecca Wolff’s internal monologue made external in poetry is uncanny. Her musical and darkly funny fourth collection, One Morning—, spans language, culture, art history, love, passion, grief, consumerism, environmental devastation, and the ekphrastic experience of pop and high... Read more

Talkativeness

By: Michael Earl Craig

Narrated by: Michael Earl Craig

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesMichael Earl Craig furthers his existential, Lynchian leanings with masterfully composed new poems. He has borrowed the everyday and returned it defamiliarized, dark, and droll. Readers are ushered out of their contemporary bustle and into the intimate viewing room that is Craig’s cinematic fourth collection. Read more

Etruria

By: Rodney Koeneke

Narrated by: Rodney Koeneke

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los Angeles"Melding images of natural timelessness with appearances from contemporary culture, Koeneke's collection is easily enjoyed by the well-seasoned bard and poetic neophyte alike."—BookslutEtruria is a diverse collection of poems featuring found language, ancient Latin, sitcom stars, even Marianne Moore, unified by a... Read more

24 Pages and other poems

By: Lisa Fishman

Narrated by: Lisa Fishman

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesLisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other—whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions of lyric unfold, in this most unconventional elegy, by means of... Read more

A Confederacy of Dumptys

By: John Lithgow

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The next book in John Lithgow's New York Times bestselling series

Following the success of New York Times bestsellers Dumpty and Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents the third book in his runaway hit series. A Confederacy of Dumptys takes us through a history of twenty-five "American... Read more