Poetry audiobooks

Audacious

By: Doreen Taylor

Narrated by: Doreen Taylor

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Audacious: Thriving Through Trauma, highlights Doreen’s amazing journey by narrating her inner thoughts in poetic prose. In her writings, she also honours 20 women who have assisted her as she supported them. It is a book that will encourage women to think about their lives, enabling them to inspire and empower themselves and others.

Doreen was... Read more

Parzival

By: Wolfram von Eschenbach

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest of all the medieval romances about the Holy Grail, Parzival was written in the early 13th century. The narrative describes the quest of the Arthurian knight, Parzival, for the Holy Grail. His journey is filled with incident, from tournaments and sieges to chivalrous deeds and displays of true love. The poem influenced several later... Read more

Ordinary Blessings

By: Meta Herrick Carlson

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. This collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offers a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Listen to this book when the spirit moves you or when the spirit feels distant—the words will be here to inspire, calm, and encourage you either... Read more

Voyage of the Sable Venus

By: Robin Coste Lewis

Narrated by: Robin Coste Lewis

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice.
 
Robin Coste Lewis’s electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The... Read more

Golgotha

By: Benoit Jutras

Narrated by: Benoit Jutras

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Golgotha est un lieu d’apparitions, espace où se déploie un « je » massif et creux, habité. Constellé d’altérités, il se sonde, se sculpte, remonte ses époques. Il revient du passé le visage dissimulé par un loup, et laisse parler le loup.Le corps, la voix du poète forment un théâtre privé : dans la boîte de son crâne des créatures tonnent de... Read more

The Fencepost Knows Too Much

By: Jack Piatt

Narrated by: Jack Piatt

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest release from poet and spoken word artist Jack Piatt takes us on an introspective journey.

Rich with philosophical jaunts, occasional comedic undertones and self-effacing references to darker dives for lost coins into the wishing well of his youth, Piatt invites us into his space and allows us to touch the art.

With an authentic telling,... Read more

Rooms of the Mind

By: Makenzie Campbell

Narrated by: Em Eldridge

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen comes Rooms of the Mind—a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak, and wonder at what the world might bring us next. Read more

Indecency

By: Justin Phillip Reed

Narrated by: Justin Phillip Reed

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.

Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white... Read more

In a Time of Distance

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Alexander McCall Smith

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a beautiful and transporting volume of poems brimming with warmth and humanity.

What matters most in life? For Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship, love, and travel—the themes found throughout his work that have made him a cherished writer the world over. This first... Read more

Emile and the Field

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Kevin Young

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lyrical picture book from an award-winning poet, adapted for audio, a young boy cherishes a neighborhood field throughout the changing seasons. With charming words, this beautiful story celebrates a child's relationship with nature.


There was a boy
named Emile
who fell
in love with a field.

It was wide
and blue--
and if you could have
seen it
so... Read more

Zoom Rooms

By: Mary Jo Salter

Narrated by: Hillary Huber, John Lee & Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.

In Zoom Rooms, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.
 
The title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings—a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a... Read more

Only You

By: Elena

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this book Elena’s open her heart and soul, to share her thoughts and feelings with her readers. Read more

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins


Narrated by Denis Daly


During his lifetime, Hopkins, who was ordained as a Jesuit priest, was best known as a scholar and a teacher of languages. In his youth he composed poetry prolifically, but detroyed all his juvenile work in 1867. In 1874 he commenced writing poetry again, but little of his verse was published... Read more

More Beasts for Worse Children

By: Hilaire Belloc

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This book of thirteen silly rhymes about strange animals is sure to delight and confuzzle its young listeners.


'More Beasts for Worse Children', a collection nonsense verse for children, was written by English-French writer, historian and satirist, Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953).


Poems in order:


1. More Beasts for Worse Children - Introduction


2. The... Read more

In Search of Essence

By: Safwan Arekat

Narrated by: Christian Stoner

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful feat by an imaginative subconscious, this book is an assembly of poetry inspired by women the author encountered while searching for his life companion. The poems have a coherent theme, which is the appreciation of feminine attributes and beauty. A deeper understanding of the poet’s motivation emerges by reading the verses... Read more

Black Lives, Lines, & Lyrics

By: D.B. Mays

Narrated by: Dominique V. Nichols & Sharese Jackson

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Lives, Lines, & Lyrics conveys the 21st Century Black experience through lines and verse. Divided into three measures, this poetry collection provides rhythmical reflections on black experiences with racial and social injustice, a poetic account of the lives lost to police brutality and racial violence, and a lyrical celebration of the... Read more

Mermaid Tales and Seaside Poems

By: Abbie Farwell Brown

Narrated by: AnnaLisa Bodtker

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

You would think that Wavilocks must be happy in her lovely home, where she has everything that a little mermaid could wish. But now she wants the diamond stars in the sky for a necklace and she will sulk and pout until she gets them.Wishes can come true, but you must be wise in your wishing. Sometimes a sad lesson is necessary to make you... Read more

Sonnets of Sin & Salvation

By: Henry R Bouchot

Narrated by: Dwayne Tarver

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sonnets of Sin & Salvation, Henry Bouchot, a local city councilman with a close-up view of America's partisan strife, takes us on a guided journey through the seven circles of modern political hell. With wit, wryness, and plenty of real-life, examples, Henry shows us an unexpected way out of our political purgatory. Read more

Black Obsidian

By: Sona Ghose

Narrated by: Manesha Ssri

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Brew a cuppa and ease yourself on your favorite chair. Black Obsidian offers a collection of spirited sentiments that will leave you aglow in the aftermath. A mélange of thoughts, unrestrained, brimming with the ability to nick and mend the heart time and again, dying and living at the same moment. Characters delighting in the pastels as well as... Read more

Murmurs of the Mad

By: Michael Eckel

Narrated by: Michael Eckel

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Turned on its head, reality’s madness becomes a comical carnival of the ridiculous with intervals of creative, contemplative verse.Within this collection of short stories and poems are the musings, struggles and cynicisms of those who see the political puppetry, the diminishing resources, the infinite greed, overconsumption, and violence that... Read more

Giacomo Leopardi

By: Boris Bertolini

Narrated by: Corrado Niro

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Giacomo Leopardi è una figura chiave della letteratura italiana e internazionale. La sua visione pessimistica della vita, che ha in qualche modo anticipato la corrente dell'Esistenzialismo sviluppatasi poi nel secolo successivo, lo ha reso celebre agli occhi dei lettori di tutto il mondo. Animo eternamente tormentato, il poeta ha espresso le sue... Read more

Walk Through a Field of Flowers

By: K.A. Bloch

Narrated by: Marie Andrascik

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is tough and full of hard times and heartache, but it’s also beautiful and plush and vibrant. Walk Through a Field of Flowers is a collection of poems gathered over a lifetime starting as a young child. Some are autobiographical, others are written as an observer of life and other people’s struggles or situations. The Author has added her... Read more

Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s Vita Nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno
 
A Penguin Classic

Dante was only nine years old when he first met young Beatrice in Florence. Loving her for the rest of his... Read more

Earthborn

By: Carl Dennis

Narrated by: Carl Dennis

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely new collection that sounds themes about the fragility of life and our duty to respect the planet in a time of climate change, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work “begins in delight and ends in wisdom” (Carrie Fountain)

The work of Carl Dennis has won praise for its “integrity, its substance, and its seemingly effortless... Read more