Poetry audiobooks

Martian

By: James Cagney

Narrated by: James Cagney

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award

 
A blistering exploration of America’s legacy of anti-Black violence from an indispensable poet of our time


American history got you down? Are you feeling alienated? Join poet James Cagney in his blistering second collection, Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, as he journeys through... Read more

Poetry for Thinkers and Feelers

By: Melody Godfred

Narrated by: Melody Godfred

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred comes an audio experience embodying her collected poetry works – highly acclaimed Self Love Poetry: for Thinkers & Feelers, and its follow up, The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective. 
In Self Love Poetry, Melody introduces her signature style of dual poetry, with each pair of poems speaking to left... Read more

The Shift

By: Melody Godfred

Narrated by: Melody Godfred

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The world has changed – but thankfully so have we. The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective embodies the best of who we are now. From Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred, author of bestselling Self Love Poetry: for Thinkers & Feelers, comes a collection of poems designed to reframe how we see and move through this brave new, post-pandemic... Read more

Unmeaningable

By: Roxanna Bennett

Narrated by: Roxanna Bennett

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Unmeaningable welcomes you to the freak show, where the monster on display is a culture that stigmatizes sickness and a system that shames the sufferer. Behold the wonder of the ages, a human mind in a human body, dissected and displayed for entertainment. Witness the ritual of surgical sacrifice! Observe the indignity of institutionalization!... Read more

En un lugar de la Mancha. Don Quijote en verso

By: Alexis Díaz-Pimienta

Narrated by: Alexis Díaz-Pimienta

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

«El Don Quijote que ahora alumbra Alexis Díaz-Pimienta es un canto de amor tan fiel al Don Quijote de hace cinco siglos que nos hace sentir no como traición, sino como sutil y gentil contrapunto que ha estado todo ese tiempo madurando, macerando, esperando su momento, el espacio en blanco que sigue a la pausa versal y la traviesa inventiva que... Read more

China Suite and other Poems - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

People, art and life. A record of a particular space in time. Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sukhothai, Honolulu, Mexico City, northernmost Scotland, Andorra. Intimates and strangers. A mother and son seen for some seconds on a bridge in Shanghai. The emotions flowing between performer and conductor throughout a concert. The interpretation one... Read more

Shadow Play - Abridged

By: James Norcliffe

Narrated by: James Norcliffe, Bernadette Hall & Gillian Bickley

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Norcliffe professes not to be a confessional poet; nevertheless he freely acknowledges that places and people served as prompts for the poems. New Zealand based, Norcliffe is well-travelled and his poems have international resonance. Placing Shadow Play with one other poetry collection as a finalist for the annual international Proverse Prize in... Read more

La canción del cambio

By: Amanda Gorman

Narrated by: Amanda Alcántara

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Un lírico audiolibro debut para niños por la poeta inaugural presidencial Amanda Gorman y el ilustrador #1 superventas del New York Times Loren Long.

"Escucho el zumbido del cambio.
Es una ruidosa y orgullosa canción.
No temo la llegada del cambio
y por eso canto con gran pasión."
 

En este emocionante y anticipado audiolibro para niños por la poeta... Read more

Weird Tales, Issue 365

By: Heather Graham & Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Pat Grimes, Sue Dessner, Qarie Marshall, Kately...

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring all new tales of dark fantasy, cosmic horror, supernatural revenge, and the sorcery of terror from masters of the craft, this issue includes the following stories and poems: “Her Happy Place” by Alma Katsu “The Thing in Jesse’s House” by Heather Graham “The Dreams in the Cipher House” by Maurice Broaddus “Shadow Plane” by Fran Wilde... Read more

The Study of Human Life

By: Joshua Bennett

Narrated by: Joshua Bennett

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award

An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood

Featuring the novella “The Book of... Read more

Mujer sin vergüenza

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Liliana Valenzuela

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Una valiente colección de poemas nuevos de Sandra Cisneros, autora del libro de mayor venta La casa en Mango Street.

Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su... Read more

birthmarks - Abridged

By: Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum

Narrated by: Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Für jedes geschriebene Wort ein Stück Ermächtigung, ein Stück Selbst. Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum beweist: Sie ist die Kraft, mit der zu rechnen ist. Wer sind wir, wenn uns die Worte fehlen? Wer, wenn wir sie kaum aufhalten können? Wenn wir in verschiedenen Sprachen leben, uns nicht nur aus ihnen bedienen wollen, sondern sie für uns selbst... Read more

Poems to Enjoy Book 5 - Abridged

By: Verner Bickley, editor

Narrated by: Verner Bickley & Gillian Bickley

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poems to Enjoy Book 5 is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists and readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. In tandem with his professional career in different countries as educationist and cultural diplomat, Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, PhD, MA(London), BA(Hons), DipEd (Cardiff), LRAM, LGSM, FIL, FRSA, has... Read more

Las manos en la sangre

By: Irene X

Narrated by: Irene X, Marina Vinyals & Enric Puig

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Los nuevos poemas de la ganadora de la primera edición del Premio ESPASAesPOESÍA. En sus poemas, como nos tiene acostumbrados, Irene X enseña un universo tan salvaje como íntimo; su mirada, que no claudica ante la vorágine de la realidad, cuenta sus secretos y sus miedos, sus pasiones y pensamientos feroces que no dejan de cautivarnos. «No... Read more

Impresionismo poético

By: Inmaculada Moreno Rodríguez

Narrated by: Inmaculada Moreno Rodríguez

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

En este elenco poético encontrarás evocaciones, sugerencias, versos que desean captar la belleza de las cosas, más que por lo que dicen por lo que apuntan, expresando sentimientos, relaciones, en un tono interiorista pero a la vez abierto a una Realidad que está más allá de ti a la que el autor clama: "Quédate conmigo/ aquí, muy cerca/... Read more

Poems to Enjoy Book 4 - Abridged

By: Verner Bickley, editor

Narrated by: Verner Bickley & Gillian Bickley

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poems to Enjoy Book 4 is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists & readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. In tandem with his professional career in different countries as educationist and cultural diplomat, Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, PhD, MA(London), BA(Hons), DipEd (Cardiff), LRAM, LGSM, FIL, FRSA,... Read more

Perceptions - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

PERCEPTIONS consists of short pieces, poetry or poem-like essays, written over a period of thirty years, on various serious and reflective topics, but with some humorous and occasional work too. As in Gillian Bickley's previous collections, the subjects occur internationally: this time, in the Pyrenees, Nigeria, Hawai'i, Albania, as well as Hong... Read more

Ring The Bells of London

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A extremely short tribute to the late Queen and her son in 3 poems
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Woman Without Shame

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and GOODREADS • A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and... Read more

Poems to Enjoy Book 3 - Abridged

By: Verner Bickley & Verner Bickley, editor

Narrated by: Verner Bickley & Gillian Bickley

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poems to Enjoy Book 3 is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists & readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. In tandem with his professional career in different countries as educationist and cultural diplomat, Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, PhD, MA (London), BA(Hons), DipEd (Cardiff), LRAM, LGSM, FIL, FRSA,... Read more

Маяковский улыбается. Маяковский смеётся. Маяковский издевается

By: Владимир Маяковский

Narrated by: Владимир Самойлов

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

«Сатира – это взгляд на мир через увеличительное стекло», – говорил Владимир Маяковский. Шарж, ирония, гипербола, гротеск, пародия, юмор придавали его сатирическим произведениям различные оттенки. Один из своих сборников поэт так и назвал: «Маяковский улыбается, Маяковский смеётся, Маяковский издевается». В него вошли стихи и отрывки из поэм,... Read more

Sightings - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Gillian Bickley

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

GILLIAN BICKLEY was born and educated in the UK and has lived mainly in Hong Kong since 1970. The poems in Sightings are on Hong Kong, European and personal subjects, accessible to many readers, both young and old. They consider what it is like to be a human being in this modern world, drawing inspiration mainly from the people whom the writer... Read more

The Weary Blues

By: Langston Hughes

Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Langston Hughes is a widely celebrated African American writer and important leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Deeply inspired by the great poet Walt Whitman, Hughes’ own writings gave voice to the Black community in the American literary canon. His assertion that “I, too, sing America” echoes through history and continues to be a battle... Read more

These Hands That Hold The World

By: Xyvah Okoye

Narrated by: Claire Glover

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

These Hands That Hold The World is a collection which deals with mortality, grief, and other matters of life.Through a mix of poetry and prose, Okoye expresses emotions of love and loss in a simple yet vulnerable way, sharing pieces of a broken heart while whispering to the reader that they are not alone.Content warnings for self-harm, suicide,... Read more