Poetry audiobooks

all of it is you.

By: Nico Tortorella

Narrated by: Nico Tortorella

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring “all of it,” from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe. 
 
Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate, one colored with love, wonder, and endless curiosity. But it is also... Read more

A Cruelty Special to Our Species

By: Emily Jungmin Yoon

Narrated by: Emily Jungmin Yoon

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talent.In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women,” women who were forced into sexual labor... Read more

Stranger Music

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen—already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist—was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer–songwriters of the time. Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums,... Read more

The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Jim Fletcher, John Doe, Maggie Hof...

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani.

The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before his death.

Just weeks before his death in late 2016,... Read more

Book of Mercy

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in... Read more

Something to Sweeten Your Tongue

By: Kiru Alintah

Narrated by: Kiru Alintah

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Something to Sweeten Your Tongue is a collection of poetry... a kalidescope of love, loss, and empowerment. Read more

I'm Just No Good at Rhyming

By: Chris Harris

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Chris Harris

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be."

Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such... Read more

Let Us Compare Mythologies

By: Leonard Cohen

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen’s first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Read more

Wisdom Command Handbook

By: Dr. Emmanuel Marboah

Narrated by: Yaw Agyei Danquah

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

 The ‘Wisdom Command Handbook’ is ideal for leaders, workers, aspiring ministers, role models and maturing believers in the Body of Christ and beyond. The ideas and quotes in this book have been carefully selected and repeatedly thought over to ensure that it is healthy and inspiring enough for any class of listeners. This book is richly... Read more

Please Don't Go Before I Get Better

By: Madisen Kuhn

Narrated by: Madisen Kuhn

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover this exquisite poetry and prose collection about the pains of growing up from the popular millennial Instagram poet, perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur.

Following her breakout debut Eighteen Years, poet Madisen Kuhn is thrilled to share this intimate portrait of a young woman navigating early adulthood and leaving her... Read more

Forever Words

By: Johnny Cash

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash, edited and introduced by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash’s own handwritten pages.Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash was an icon in the music world. In this collection of poems... Read more

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than eighty never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of... Read more

The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Jeremy Irons

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of... Read more

Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Love

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Kahlil Gibran’s aphorisms, stories, and poetry on a theme remain among some of those best known to Western readers. His views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted “greeting card” sayings to a wide realm of human emotions and relationships—passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers,... Read more

Dear Universe

By: Pierra Calasanz-Labrador

Narrated by: Joyce Pring

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Universe … can you hear me?If Pierra Calasanz-Labrador’s debut poetry collection The Heartbreak Diaries was equivalent to an “ugly cry,” this second volume is an introspective journey, a quiet voice longing to be heard. Like stumbling upon an introvert’s secret diary, these fifty poems chronicle fervent wishes, hidden fears, and everyday... Read more

The Flowers of Evil

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sensual, macabre, joyous and liberating, The Flowers of Evil, or, Les Fleurs du Mal, is a beautifully debauched reflection on dreams, sin, life and death. With subjects ranging from travel to drugs, sex to faith, sleep to contemplation, Baudelaire finds new beauty in the most sinister and corrupt of situations. His morbid and nightmarish... Read more

Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold

By: William Shakespeare & James Anthony

Narrated by: Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony & Stephen Fry

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand
 
James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs. This drew him to the rewarding 14-line... Read more

The Dark Between Stars

By: Atticus

Narrated by: Atticus

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.

Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma... Read more

Poem Criticizing the Avignon Papacy

By: Raimon de Cornet & J.H. Robinson

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The period known as the Avignon Papacy began in 1309, when Pope Clement V relocated the seat of papal power to Avignon, France. The French monarchy slowly gained control over the papacy during this time, and as they did, corruption and greed grew in the church. The troubadour and priest Raimon de Cornet staunchly opposed the Avignon Papacy for... Read more

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Alice Walker

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—reads the English-language editions of the poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both... Read more

Wildly into the Dark

By: Tyler Knott Gregson

Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The most intimate and eclectic poetry collection yet from bestselling author and online sensation Tyler Knott GregsonWith loyal fans around the world and across the internet, Tyler Knott Gregson is reinventing poetry for a new generation, using Instagram and Tumblr to reach readers where they are. Tyler’s third collection includes more of his... Read more

The Great Poets: Lord Byron

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So... Read more

After the Love (O.L.D. & M.A.T.U.R.E.)

By: Jeffrey V. Perry

Narrated by: Barry Schwam

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding one’s self is not a product of age or time. But, learning to love and accept ourselves can be. Every day we learn that we cannot deceive our self until we must face our truth. You need no mirror nor any outside help. You will only have you.This poetry is written in various styles and on different subjects. It is inspired writing on... Read more

The Lioness Awakens

By: Lauren Eden

Narrated by: Lauren Eden

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lioness Awakens is an audiobook of short poems with a bite. Lauren Eden writes provocative poetry about love, sexuality, heartbreak, and feminism, combined in a creative expression of female empowerment and confidence.

I was always
suspicious of those
Happily Ever Afters
disappearing without a trace
with no other pages as evidence. Read more