Poetry audiobooks

The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings

By: Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman

Narrated by: Jolie Taylor

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

40 fun poems that explore big feelings and emotions. This whimsical journey through verse and illustrations can help children recognize and understand their big emotions. From the imaginative minds of Brandon Dorman, renowned illustrator of Goosebumps, Land of Stories, and Fablehaven, and Booktok creator Jolie Taylor comes a whimsical... Read more

The Prophetess

By: Chelan Harkin

Narrated by: Chelan Harkin

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful retelling and continuation of Kahlil Gilbran's The Prophet, this book of prose poetry examines life's deeper meaning and spirituality with the Divine Feminine as a guide.

The Prophetess is a modern take on Kahlil Gibran’s classic 1923 book, The Prophet. The beautiful verse explores the power and timeless wisdom of the Divine Feminine.... Read more

Songs for the Land-Bound

By: Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Narrated by: Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s luminous debut seeks out ways of coping in a complicated age. Exploring the constraints and anxieties of midlife in the midst of climate breakdown, of motherhood in a period of personal and planetary vulnerability, these poems speak to the persistence of nature, creativity, and love: necessary sources of hope and beauty,... Read more

Althea and Other Poems

By: Gregory M Thompson

Narrated by: Gregory M Thompson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio collection of poetry from Gregory M. Thompson has over 35 poems about love, despair, and death in structured and free-form styles. Includes the two horror epic poems ALTHEA and MODERIA. Enjoy different types poetic styles from traditional to rhythmic to serious to humorous. Read more

Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

By: Dara Barrois/Dixon

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***

Highly anticipated poems from beloved contemporary poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier).

In her latest collection, Dara Barrois/Dixon brings generous attention to the things we love—be they animals, books, skyscapes, movies,... Read more

Bröllop

By: Gustaf Fröding, Nils Ferlin, Pär Lagerkvist, Ka...

Narrated by: Klassiska Dikter

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

KLASSISKA DIKTER | BRÖLLOPDikter för bröllop är kärlekens röst i poesins form. Med ömma ord och romantiskt svung dansar de genom känslor och löften. Dessa dikter väver en tidlös saga, ett vackert testamente till kärlekens odödliga resa, och blir en oskiljbar del av den stora dagen, vars magi lever vidare i varje vers.Dessa dikter får vi lyssna... Read more

Dop

By: Harriet Löwenhjelm, Lina Sandell, Verner von He...

Narrated by: Klassiska Dikter

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

KLASSISKA DIKTER | DOPDikter för dop sträcker ut sina mjuka händer till det nya livets början. Med ömma ord och hoppfulla toner vävs en poetisk välsignelse för det lilla livet. Dessa dikter är som kärlekens noter som ackompanjerar dopets ögonblick och väcker en evig melodi av välsignelse och gemenskap.Dessa dikter får vi lyssna till: Är det du,... Read more

The Elk in the Glade

By: Bruce E. Whitacre

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bruce E. Whitacre’s ability to capture this support network and the extraordinary efforts of Jennie Hicks in a manner that reaches beyond the usual literary or arts reader makes her story appealing to a much wider audience” —Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review“Side by side with the paintings, Whitacre’s book serves as a deeply personal yet... Read more

Begravning

By: Lina Sandell, Pär Lagerkvist, Nils Ferlin, Dan ...

Narrated by: Klassiska Dikter

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

KLASSISKA DIKTER | BEGRAVNINGDikter för begravning skapar en känsloladdad bro mellan sorg och tröst. Med ömma ord gestaltar de minnen, kärlek och förlust. Dessa dikter blir en balsam för själen, en vacker sista hälsning som ger tröst och styrka i stunden av farväl.Här är dikterna vi får lyssna till:
Blott en dag - Lina Sandell Bred dina vida... Read more

Beautiful Chaos

By: Jessica Urlichs

Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.

Upon becoming a mother, poet Jessica Urlichs was... Read more

A Week of Years

By: John Campbell

Narrated by: John Campbell

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful story of love, loss, and redemption. The slow fall from grace. The search for spirit. A journey back to light.A Week of Years embraces the heartbreak of a young love lost to tell the story of one man's struggle to find purpose beyond the end of innocence. A narrative embraced and encompassed by poems that dance intimately with life's... Read more

He Whare Mōteatea mō ngā Mātauranga Waiata Tūhoe

By: Dr Te Hauāuru Raeleen Tahi-Rangihau

Narrated by: Dr Te Hauāuru Raeleen Tahi-Rangihau

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ko tā tēnei tūtohinga whakapae he whakautu i te urupounamu, arā kai hea rā he whare mōteatea mō ngā mātauranga waiata o tōku iwi? Inā hoki e whakapae ana ko tā te mōteatea he pupuri i te toi o te kupu, i te tiketiketanga o te reo taketake Tūhoe. Kai te toi o hiwi whakaaro ko te ahu pēhea o tō tātau reo, otirā o wā tātau taonga katoa, kai te kapu... Read more

A Bit Much

By: Lyndsay Rush

Narrated by: Lyndsay Rush

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy.

At long last, a book of poetry for people who didn’t even know they liked poetry. And... Read more

Motherlands

By: Weijia Pan

Narrated by: Weijia Pan

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist... Read more

The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

Narrated by: Wendy Cope

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. With additional poems from Wendy Cope's Collected Poems. Read by the author. In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of... Read more

Bridges

By: Mike Blake

Narrated by: Mike Blake

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridges: Rivers of traffic.
Bridges are all about us now in the modern world.
"I have have written this Poem 'BRIDGES - Rivers of Traffic. ::
Bridges are all about us now in the modern world, but have been around for a long time.
They've been getting built since ancient times, to ford rivers and cross continents by making roads AND rivers... Read more

Pills and Jacksonvilles

By: Jillian Weise

Narrated by: Jillian Weise

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce, provocative collection of poems exploring sexuality, queerness, the body, and disability in an ableist worldIn this arresting collection, The Cyborg Jillian Weise navigates the intersection of disability and desire, wending her way through diners, bars, and dark living rooms lit by TV screens. Her words flit in and out of DMs, texts,... Read more

XoeteoX

By: author

Narrated by: Edwin Torres

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“There is no other poet who writes like Torres. Elaborate, chanting, pointed, and granite in their ‘octaves of shine,’ his poems have it all. They are a real and gritty pleasure to read, a necessary tonic to these toxic times.” —John YauWhat does a book want to be in anyone’s hands but an infinite word object? XoeteoX is a dare into perception,... Read more

Who We Are Is Made

By: Nicole Combeau, Daniel Amador, LeeBetsy Charon,...

Narrated by: P. Scott Cunningham, Dana Raja Wahab, Nicole Co...

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Who We Are Is Made is an audio-anthology of South Florida writers and their roots, a collection of histories that came together through an open call for submissions, through workshops, through mentorships, and sometimes through phoning a friend. We set out to explore how much of us is actually the gift, legacy, the influence of those from other... Read more

Shadows of the ruined

By: Helga Lockheart

Narrated by: Styx

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of dark poems expressing intense and poignant feelings of love, anger, pain, and loss. These stirring and emotional pieces explore human emotions and complexity of love and relationships. With their vivid and striking language, these poems capture the depths of emotions and the intensity of human experiences. Read more

Saints of Little Faith

By: Megan Pinto

Narrated by: Megan Pinto

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The energies animating Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto’s electrifying debut in poetry, are a forceful quiet, a loud stillness, the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder. Everywhere, the speaker sees the numinous power of language, the incipience of things to come, even a kind of catastrophic grace in desolation and... Read more

Antología de poesía queer

By: Héctor Aceves, Txus García, Berta García Faet, ...

Narrated by: Ángelo Néstore

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Voces vibrantes en la celebración de la palabra y el deseo Lo queer supone una respuesta amplia a los roles de género tradicionales del universo heteropatriarcal. Como la literatura se alimenta de la identidad personal, la escritura queer refleja la experiencia autobiográfica y el pensamiento crítico del autor queer, nuevas vías que abren fugas... Read more

Valentía I

By: Kelbin Torres

Narrated by: Lambda García

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

La edición en audiolibro de Valentía, de Kelbin Torres, un fenómeno editorial en nuestro país. Este no es un libro de esos que dejas olvidados en un rincón, sino uno al que vuelves cada vez que lo necesitas. Es de esos que logran derrumbarte, pero también hacerte brillar. Te hará llorar y reír, te acercará más a la vida. Aquí encontrarás... Read more

Valentía II

By: Kelbin Torres

Narrated by: Lambda García

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

La edición en audiolibro de Valentía II, de Kelbin Torres, un fenómeno editorial en nuestro país. Si alguna vez sentiste que no podías más, si te rompieron el corazón, si confiaste a ciegas y te apuñalaron por la espalda, si creíste que después del dolor no había nada más, este libro es para ti. En Valentía II encontramos el reflejo de alguien... Read more