Poetry audiobooks

A Country of Strangers

By: D. Nurkse

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In an illuminating collection of selected poems over thirty-five years, one of our most essential American poets casts a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart’s hidden stories.

D. Nurkse’s immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima... Read more

The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

By: Nathalia Crane

Narrated by: AnnaLisa Bodtker

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathalia Crane's poems are a treasure. Her verse can be lighthearted and humorous as when her "heart is all a-flutter like the washing on a line" because she is in love with the Janitor's Boy, or she knows "the tenseness of humiliating pain" when she sits on a bee. Her verse can be philosophical as when she considers the life of the Blind Girl... Read more

Cuando sale la luna

By: Federico García Lorca

Narrated by: Marta Mearín

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta antología de García Lorca para niñas y niños, se basa en la selección de obras de la literatura para la Enseñanza Básica hecha por el Ministerio de Educación de Chile. Incluye una breve introducción, que explica de manera muy sencilla quién es el autor; 35 poemas y una obra de teatro, todo bellamente musicalizado. Read more

Sorrow, Tears and Blood

By: David Onamade

Narrated by: Ash Caton

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

David’s book is one of despair and hope; one that paints a picture of our society that is both dark and broken up by fleeting rays of light. From his plight on the streets in one of England’s richest regions, to the interactions of people he observes and encounters every day, to the impacts of Covid-19 and the changing seasons – this is poetry... Read more

أغاني على حدود الوجع

By: مني المنير

Narrated by: ماجد مراد

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

قلبي على مصر انفطر .. وقلبهم زي الحجر كل اما تيجي تعتدل .. يكعبلوها تتعتر تيجي تجفف دمعها .. يموتوا لما كام نفر تيجي تطبطب ع الجدع .. تلقاه من القهر انتحر وعجبى!! ديوان شعر بالعامية المصرية للشاعرة منى المنير، يضم قائمة قصائد وطنية لها أبعاد وتجارب نفسية وشخصية لا يمكن إغفالها حين الاستماع إليها، فدائمًا ما تترك بك أثرًا! استمع الآن. Read more

Beowulf [Español Latino]

By: Anónimo

Narrated by: Daniel Aviña Ramírez

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

El poema épico de Beowulf es uno de los textos más antiguos de la literatura europea medieval. Escrito en la lengua anglosajona, o inglés antiguo, se cree que fue escrito en torno al s. VII, y se conserva en un solo manuscrito realizado entre 975 y 1025 DC. El poema, ambientado en Escandinavia, narra las hazañas del gauta Beowulf, quien acude en... Read more

The Book of Nyles

By: Alexandria House & Nyles Adams

Narrated by: Winston James

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a short collection of poetry from the pen and mind of Nyles Adams, most of which originally appeared in other Alexandria House works.Listen, absorb, and snap your fingers if you are so inclined. Read more

Some Things I Still Can't Tell You

By: Misha Collins

Narrated by: Misha Collins

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his “Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well... Read more

From Shade to Shine

By: Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Narrated by: Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time... Read more

Vinegar Hill

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens

Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space... 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

Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral (Unabridged)

By: Phillis Wheatley

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first book of poetry ever published by an AfricanAmerican author. Phillis Wheatley’s deep familiarity with Latin literature and Christianity, combined with her African ancestry, provided her with a unique and inimitable view of... Read more

Don Juan (Unabridged)

By: Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and... Read more

Verses On Various Occasions (Unabridged)

By: John Henry Newman

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Verses on Various Occasions is a collection of poems written by John Henry Newman between 1818 and 1865. This period of Newman’s ecclesiastical career saw his ordination as an Anglican priest in 1825, his involvement in the High Church “Oxford Movement” in the 1830s, his conversion to... Read more

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell (Unabridged)

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. An Antarctic Mystery follows Mr. Jeorling, a wealthy American naturalist whose research has led him to the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the southern Indian Ocean. Jeorling begins his adventure on the Halbrane after being admitted aboard by the reluctant captain Len Guy, who... Read more

The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám (Unabridged)

By: Omar Khayyám

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Omar Khayyám was a medieval Iranian mathematician, philosopher, scholar, and poet. He was thought to have composed over 1,000 rubáiyát, or quatrains, in his lifetime. Many different scholars have translated selections of Khayyám’s quatrains, but Edward FitzGerald’s translation remains... Read more

Julius Caesar (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. After defeating enemies in battle, Roman citizens celebrate in the streets as Julius Caesar and his entourage make their way through the city. As Caesar passes a soothsayer, he receives an ominous warning: “Beware the ides of March,” which he immediately disregards. Meanwhile, some of... Read more

North Of Boston (Unabridged)

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. North of Boston is Robert Frost’s second collection of poetry. It includes some of his more famous poems, like “Mending Wall,” “Home Burial,” and “After ApplePicking.” Read more

Gitanjali (Unabridged)

By: Rabindranath Tagore

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian—indeed, the first person outside Europe—to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his “spiritual offering of... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Poetry of T. S. Eliot collects all of his early work through “The Hollow Men.” Poems like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Whispers of Immortality,” and “Gerontion” ponder aging and mortality, while “Sweeney Erect,” “Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Service,” and “Sweeney Among the... Read more

The Aeneid (Unabridged)

By: Virgil

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Virgil’s epic poem begins with Aeneas fleeing the ruins of Troy with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius, with a plan to make a home in Italy. Because of a prophecy foretelling that the descendants of Aeneas will one day destroy Carthage, Juno’s favorite city, Juno orders... Read more

King Lear (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. King Lear is a tragedy by Shakespeare, written about 1605 or 1606. Shakespeare based it on the legendary King Leir of the Britons, whose story is outlined in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain (written in about 1136). The play tells the tale of... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: John Keats

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. John Keats’ poems are a major part of the second wave of English Romantic poetry. They portray settings loaded with symbolism and sensuality, and draw heavily on Greek and Roman myth along with romanticised tales of chivalry. Keats died in 1821 at the young age of 25, having written... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: Wilfred Owen

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Wilfred Owen was a soldier and poet during the second half of the first World War. His poetry, contrary to the propaganda of the time, dealt with the horrors of frontline trench warfare and was written at least partially out of a sense of duty to tell of the realities of war. Most of... Read more