Poetry audiobooks

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

By: Amanda Lovelace

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems.

within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is... Read more

Every Good Boy Does Fine

By: Calvin Arsenia

Narrated by: Calvin Arsenia

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Glowing with warmth, vulnerability, and a heavy heart, Arsenia’s intimate reflections depict the past and present wrestling within the individual as he endeavors to chart his own course in the world.”—Atwood Magazine

Both a journey of individual healing and a call for action, these poems show that, with a little love and acceptance, anyone can... Read more

Държавата на другия живот

By: Пламен Сивов

Narrated by: Пламен Сивов

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

„Държавата на другия живот“ съдържа 70 избрани стихотворения на Пламен Сивов, писани в периода 1992-2016 г. Книгата е оформена в 4 раздела – „По стръмните пътеки на душата“, „Жената, която се връща“, „Една октава тишина“ и „Фонтан в дъжда“. 45 от стихотворенията са и песни, включени в соловите албуми на Пламен Сивов и в албумите на "Точка БГ".За... Read more

Arsène Lupin - Partie 1

By: Maurice Leblanc

Narrated by: Frédéric de Lavenne de Choulot

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Improve your French while listening and appreciating one of the greatest French writers: Maurice Leblanc.You can adjust the speed depending on your level in French. You can also buy the book to follow with the transcription as you are listening.The literature has been adapted into useful French words and verb tenses for conversation. With this... Read more

Unexhausted Time

By: Emily Berry

Narrated by: Emily Berry

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in. Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here... Read more

Madame Bovary - Partie 1

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Frédéric de Lavenne de Choulot

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Improve your French while listening and appreciating the wisdom of the great French writer: Gustave Flaubert.You can adjust the speed depending on your level in French. You can also buy the book to follow with the transcription as you are listening.The literature has been adapted into useful French words and verb tenses for conversation. With... Read more

I Touched a Star In My Dream Last Night

By: Ellen Palestrant

Narrated by: Ellen Palestrant

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

I Touched a Star in My Dream Last Night is a collection of poems to be enjoyed by all ages such as "Midnight Sleep", "TenAnts!", "Day-Not-Long-Enuffis", "Big Band", "Groom in the Moon", "Froggy Goes to Boggywood" and "Zwervland in the Sky." Written, illustrated and narrated by Ellen Palestrant, these poems are imaginative, dream-like, lyrical,... Read more

Somebody Loves You

By: Mona Arshi

Narrated by: Mona Arshi

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2022** A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one... Read more

Woman, Eat Me Whole

By: Ama Asantewa Diaka

Narrated by: Ama Asantewa Diaka

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals... Read more

Dream Drawings

By: N. Scott Momaday

Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

“Momaday must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”—American ScholarFrom Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit.“Language and the imagination work hand in hand, and together they... Read more

O

By: Zeina Hashem Beck

Narrated by: Zeina Hashem Beck

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 

“O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
 
From a “brilliant, absolutely essential voice” whose “poems feel like whole worlds” (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection... Read more

Praising the Paradox

By: Tina Schumann

Narrated by: Tina Schumann

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to face the transient nature of life was named a finalist in the National Poetry Series, The New Issues Poetry Prize, The Four Way Books Intro Prize, and others. It was also listed as a “remarkable work” in the... Read more

808s & Otherworlds

By: Sean Avery Medlin

Narrated by: Sean Avery Medlin

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"September’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" —Lambda Literary
"Most-Anticipated New LGBTQIA+ Books of 2021" —Paperback Paris"An elegant mash of memoir, poetry, tales of appropriation, thoughts on Black masculinity, Hulk, Kanye." —Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean... Read more

No One Leaves the World Unhurt

By: John Foy

Narrated by: Author

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

John Foy’s newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O’Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever, and deeply knowing verse. Foy satirizes various... Read more

Inheritance

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

They tell me to “fix” my hair.And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten;but how do you fix this shipwreckedhistory of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad—the history, pain, pride, and... Read more

Sisters' Entrance

By: Emtithal Mahmoud

Narrated by: Emtithal Mahmoud

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

2015 World Poetry Slam Champion and Woman of the World co-Champion Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud presents her hauntingly beautiful debut poetry collection.Brimming with rage, sorrow, and resilience, this collection traverses an expansive terrain: genocide; diaspora; the guilt of surviving; racism and Islamophobia; the burdens of girlhood; the solace of... Read more

Premonition

By: Plamen Sivov

Narrated by: Plamen Sivov

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Plamen Sivov was born in Bulgaria in 1970. He is a recognised singer-songwriter, poet and journalist, holding a number of national poetry awards and recognitions. His poetry has been translated in English, Russian and Polish. This book presents 17 of his poems, translated by Diana Stefanova.Sivov manages to convey the singularity of an... Read more

Vivir, sentir, morir

By: Laury P. M.

Narrated by: Ingrid Ferrer

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ocho poemas para alimentar el alma. Ocho poemas para reflexionar, para entender la vida, para, en definitiva, sentir. Read more

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson & Stanley W...

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh & Lolita Chakrabarti

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic... Read more

15 Japanese Short Stories for Beginners

By: Christian Tamaka Pedersen

Narrated by: Christian Tamaka Pedersen & Miho Araki

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a collection of 15 entertaining and culturally interesting Japanese short stories for beginners and intermediate Japanese learners. The book also includes many unique mystery stories that will stimulate your imagination.This Japanese audio book is not designed only for Japanese language students, but also for those who appreciate... Read more

Poukahangatus

By: Tayi Tibble

Narrated by: Tayi Tibble

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.

Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in... Read more

La mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage

By: Benoit Pinette

Narrated by: Benoit Pinette

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Comment éteindre ce qui brûle depuis toujours quand nous sommes tous constitués de tisons qui refusent de mourir ? Avec bonté et résilience, Benoit Pinette retourne à son enfance – un pays en soi, une trajectoire – et pose le doigt sur ses instants douloureux, étudie l’équilibre des époques. Il construit de là sa compréhension des glissements... Read more

All the Flowers Kneeling

By: Paul Tran

Narrated by: Paul Tran

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick 
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker 

“Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write... Read more

A BUEN JUEZ, MEJOR TESTIGO.

By: José Zorrilla

Narrated by: Ildefonso Escobar Rubio

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A buen juez, mejor testigo es una leyenda de versos octosílabos de José Zorrilla incluida en su volumen Poesías (1838) e inspirada en la tradición toledana del Cristo de la Vega, que, milagrosamente, declara como testigo del incumplimiento de una promesa de boda. Read more