Poetry audiobooks

The Book of Thel

By: William Blake

Narrated by: Jason Rosette

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A lesser-known masterpiece by the visionary English romantic poet, William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Songs of Innocence and Experience)!In comparison to Blake's later prophetic books, The Book of Thel is relatively short and is easier to understand; this edition is entertainingly read by producer-narrator Jason Rosette.About the... Read more

The Candle of Crest

By: Demethius Jackson

Narrated by: Demethius Jackson & Vanessa Marroquin

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is not your traditionally written classic epic-adventure. You will instead be immersed into a fully rhyming audio-adventure of magic and mayhem! Featuring a full audio-scape of music and sound effects, The Candle of Crest is unlike any other audiobook you've heard.As Earth's only magical kingdom defends against ruthless invaders, a... Read more

The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Julie Fowlis, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn, Ch...

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a... Read more

Dream of the Divided Field

By: Yanyi

Narrated by: Yanyi

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. 

FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & Writers

The... Read more

A Hundred Lovers

By: Richie Hofmann

Narrated by: Richie Hofmann

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire.

“A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare’s sonnets, marking Hofmann’s position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire.” —Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more

Stones

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Kevin Young

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles Times).

"We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind." In scenes and settings that circle family and the... Read more

Stag's Leap

By: Sharon Olds

Narrated by: Sharon Olds

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the... Read more

Tuck-a-tuck Dragon

By: JL Morin

Narrated by: Stephan Theo

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Delightful dragons lead the way through this diverse, rhyming children's book to overcome childhood fears. The "boring Tan Dragon" wins the respect of his colorful peers when he faces his fear and realizes his special gift. Brilliant, often abstract, paintings by Stephan Theo and Nicole Theo illustrate this enchanting rhyme-Stephan Theo from the... Read more

Poems from a Gypsy Heart

By: Verle Jean

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The author Verle Jean was born and raised in the Slim Buttes region of the Black Hills in South Dakota and was touched by the beauty of the country she grew up in. I know this book “Poems From A Gypsy Heart “ will find the Gypsy spirit in us all. The cover and illustrations are done by the author Ms. Verle Jean. She knew from the age of eight... Read more

Poetry and Rhyme Collection

By: Highlights for Children

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen and relive the exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Hear about a child who helps a butterfly return to where it belongs and the beauty of the summer sky, along with other poems.Stories include: Animal Crackers by Heidi Bee Roemer, Barnyard Breakfast by Melanie Rook Welfing, Camping Out with Honey by Gale Sypher Jacob, Dancing the... Read more

Chwile zamyślenia (Moments of Reflection)

By: Barbara Bukowska

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Chwile zamyślenia” - Beata Poźniak, aktorka - tuż przed niespodziewaną śmiercią krewniaczki, Barbary Bukowskiej, otrzymuje wiersze napisane przez nią. Barbara “pisała tylko tak dla siebie”. Wiersze są osobiste, rodzinne - autorka przeprowadza rozmowę ze swoją podświadomoscią, z nadprzyrodzoną siłą, z Bogiem. Poźniak pisząc Wstęp do tomiku... Read more

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Anna Popova

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a reclusive poet whose only friendships were carried out by letter. She wrote nearly 1800 poems in her life, but very few were published until after her death. In this volume the poems are presented in chronological order in their original form, unaltered by editorial revision. It offers a wide-angle view of... Read more

La plaga

By: Raúl Alonso

Narrated by: Daniel Vera & Raúl Alonso

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“No es ningún secreto que una conciencia puede a veces ser una plaga...” canta Bono en “The fly”, tema estrella del álbum Achtung Baby (1991) con el que U2 reinventó su sonido para la década del final de siglo, sumergiéndose en registros más electrónicos y psicoactivos. Con esos versos podemos resumir parte del ambiente de este poemario con... Read more

Poems of John of the Cross

By: David Lewis

Narrated by: Denis Daly & Sarah Bacaller

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems of John of the Cross


Translated by David Lewis


Narrated by Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller


Although his output was small, John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish poetry. All his verse explores the same theme: the seach of the soul for union with its creator and the glory of the resulting... Read more

Where The Dead Men Lie And Other Poems

By: Barcroft Boake

Narrated by: Denis Daly & Amy Soakes

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Where The Dead Men Lie And Other Poems


By Barcroft Boake


Collected and edited by A. G. Stephens


Narrated by Denis Daly and Amy Soakes


In his short life Australian poet Barcoft Boake completed thirty poems, the most famous of which is the pastoral lament, Where The Dead Men Lie, which was first published in the The Bulletin in December, 1891.


This... Read more

"The Drunken Boat" and Other Poems by Arthur Rimbaud

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Jason Rosette

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Drunken Boat" ("Le Bateau ivre") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. It centers around the delirious visions of the eponymous boat, swamped and lost at sea, and is... Read more

Sonnets From the Portuguese

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Not just a collection of poems written in the same form and genre but a flowing and intimate portrait of love given and received, "Sonnets From the Portuguese" is perhaps poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most well-known work. This intimate and evocative publication that transcends meter and rhyme is brought to unique life in this audiobook by... Read more

The man who had sunshine in his blood

By: Zane Pinner

Narrated by: Zane Pinner

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and compassion are pitted against selfish greed in this heart-wrenching ballad from an award-winning Australian author.A kind-hearted Tasmanian farmer has an incredible secret - sunshine flows through his veins, protecting him from injury and illness. But when the farmer embarks on an overseas mission to save a young girl's life, his secret... Read more

Palabras de amor "sin soda y sin hielo"

By: Evaristo Buda de León

Narrated by: José Santaella

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay quienes afirman que el arma más poderosa del ser humano es la palabra, aquella que crea o destruye, aquella que siembra y cosecha, y que también besa con sus labios de sílabas, y que también mata. Como un prestidigitador, Evaristo Ramón juega con las palabras y las desafía, las mezcla, las carga de sentido, y nos las devuelve transformadas... Read more

Murmuration

By: Blake Auden

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Murmuration is a year's worth of emotions, anxious thoughts, and panic attacks, each one a beating wing in the mind of the author.



This book is an attempt to create something beautiful from this chaos; to make sense of the things we dare not breathe to life. Focusing on loss, heartbreak, mental health, and the impact of isolation on a tired mind,... Read more

Whispers from Eternity

By: Paramhansa Yogananda

Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Many poetic works can inspire, but few, like this one, have the power to change your life. These verses rank with the greatest mystical poetry of all time: the works of St. John of the Cross, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai, and Omar Khayyam. In this book Paramhansa Yogananda—the great master of yoga and author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi—shares... Read more

Requeening

By: Amanda Moore

Narrated by: Amanda Moore

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging... Read more

The Conference of the Birds

By: Attar

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"These lofty words are an antidote/ for anyone sickened by extremism's poison."



Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world's birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search... Read more

Head over Heart

By: Anran Liken

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compilation of poetry. These mean a lot to me. For each one comes from my heart. I have cried, laughed, felt every emotion that you will feel in this book. Heartbreak, love, lose, passion, break-ups, we all have felt those at some points of our lives. Many may read and say ‘that is me that is how I felt’ or ‘is she talking about me at... Read more