Poetry audiobooks

Dream of the Divided Field

By: Yanyi

Narrated by: Yanyi

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. 

FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & Writers

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Aspects Of Love

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Tony Addison

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads off this set of erotic explorations. In The Symposium's philosophic play, he depicts a scene of men cosing together over dinner,... 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

Dances, Towers, Hills and Skies

By: Del Elle

Narrated by: Ava B

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

I spent years avoiding poetry, and what happens? Got me when I least expected it. Born after seeing a tv programme:Pushed by a need to escape from writing that epic. Reflexes to landscapes, skyscapes and flowers:Reflexes to music that stirs the beat. Dances: The first book in The Poetry Collections. Read more

feeling e feio

By: Danai Mupotsa

Narrated by: Eduarda Mondlane

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

feeling e feio foi maioritariamente escrito entre 2016 e 2018, apesar de parte dos poemas terem sido previamente publicados de alguma forma. A antologia junta vários status e locais por onde Danai Mupotsa passa, como filha, mãe, professora catedrática e escritora. Destes lugares, muitos dos poemas tentam abordar sentimentos difíceis sobre o que... Read more

A Perseverança

By: Raymond Antrobus

Narrated by: Leo Cote

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A Perseverança é o notável livro de estreia do poeta Anglo-Jamaicano Raymond Antrobus. Atravessando história e continentes, estes poemas operam nas entrelinhas, o seu lirismo assombra-nos criando territórios novos e híbridos. A Perseverança é um livro sobre perda, língua contestada e louvor, onde elegias ao pai do poeta vão lado a lado com... Read more

Tearing Petals of Beauty

By: Bailey C. Weber

Narrated by: Melanie Taylor

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetry is about empathy, imagination, observation, and about internal and external truths. These works focus on a person's relationship with nature, others, and self, through depicting hope, love, memory, shame, immortality, acceptance, faith, happiness, confidence, passion, recognition, diversity, perseverance, forgiveness, vulnerability, and... Read more

Merrybells Ring Everywhere for Poetry

By: Gene B Pacifico

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

I wrote this book by imagination in poetry. About relationships had or would like to have . Some poems are Romantic some joky. Others here and there come to mind of kind of everywhere. As the World turns on its Love lights. Read more

Paradise

By: Victoria Redel

Narrated by: Victoria Redel

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Rewriting Eden, Victoria Redel interrogates the idea of paradise within the historical context of borders, exile, and diaspora that brought us to the present global migration crisis. Drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge, the poems in Paradise interweave religion and myth, personal lore and nation-building, borders actual and... Read more

Tongue of a Crow

By: Peter Coyote

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Coyote’s first collection of poetry takes us on a whirlwind tour of an eclectic and exciting life as an actor and Zen Buddhist priest, meandering from love affairs to marriage to divorce to the Sixties to psychedelic spirituality and beyond.  Written over several decades, these poems read as a collage, each piece distinct and contributing... Read more

Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frédéric de Lavenne de Choulot

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Improve your French while listening and appreciating one of the greatest French writers: Victor Hugo.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 book,... Read more

From Hell to Well

By: Loanne Rhymes

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This book is a courageous account, that you cannot help but resonate with, because it reveals a very human condition, suffering. It gives you hope that trauma is not an end point, positive change is possible. Loanne developed a unique way of working through her journey, using poetry. Her poems reflect different stages from the depths of trauma... 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

RUMI

By: Suria Pombo

Narrated by: Olvido Gomez

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Rumi (1207-1273) es uno de los poetas que ha expresado el amor a Dios de una manera más directa y bella. Pertenece a la tradición sufí, que es la vertiente más mística del Islam. La espiritualidad de sus versos, llenos de amor, siguen conmoviendo a personas de cualquier tradición religiosa del planeta porque su mensaje y su arte es universal.En... Read more

Artless

By: Winston Shaw

Narrated by: Text-to-speech

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

101 American Haiku
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Poetry narrated by TTS with music, sound FX & animated emoji illustrations! Read more

Blueprint For New Beginnings

By: Matt C Murdoch

Narrated by: Matt C Murdoch

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Blueprint for New Beginnings puts life on the couch: through the eyes and ears of this author, The listener will discover an individuation journey and the extraordinarily rich intersection between collective mythology, nature and ordinary everyday life.

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Dark Days and Dangerous Nights

By: Jack Freestone

Narrated by: Jack Freestone

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The author began writing poetry when he lived in Paris in 2015. This is a selection of his favourites from his first collection. Read more

Passover, Here I Come!

By: D.J. Steinberg

Narrated by: Nily Dar Steinberg

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate Passover with a collection of funny and festive poems from the author of the hugely popular Kindergarten, Here I Come!

The Seder plate is set and the pantry's filled with matzah -- Passover is here! Author D. J. Steinberg is back with an all new collection of poems celebrating the joys of Passover, from singing the Four Questions to... Read more

A Hundred Lovers

By: Richie Hofmann

Narrated by: Richie Hofmann

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire.

“A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare’s sonnets, marking Hofmann’s position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire.” —Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more

A Map of Longings

By: Manan Kapoor

Narrated by: Paul Hottam

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Shahid is widely regarded as one of the finest poets from the Indian subcontinent, and his works are read across the world, touching millions of lives. A pioneer of ghazal writing in English, he wrote extensively about loss, nostalgia and home. A witness to the conflict that ravaged his homeland Kashmir, a loss he lamented in his collection The... Read more

Bitter Lips, Sweet Heart

By: Adriel Brandt

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart.The hopes that hurt and the dreams that hover"- from "O tender-hearted, O perfect lover"Algernon Charles Swinburne"Bitter Lips, Sweet Heart" is a unique collection of romantic poetry first assembled by a group of young male college students who got together to read poetry and drink tea every week,... Read more

El Poeta de la Caña de O

By: Iván Pallares Rincón

Narrated by: Iván Pallares Rincón

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra fue diseñada con técnicas de Programación Neurolingüística (PNL).Se han aplicado principios fundamentales de la Ciencia de Programación Neurolingüística (PNL), creada por John Grinder y Richard Bandler, en los años 70s y con fundamentos del Super-Aprendizaje, método diseñado por el magnífico Psicólogo Búlgaro Georgi Lozanov.La... Read more

El Puma Interpreta Poemas

By: Iván Pallares Rincón

Narrated by: Rafael Jiménez Pumarejo, el Puma

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra fue diseñada con técnicas de Programación Neurolingüística (PNL).Se han aplicado principios fundamentales de la Ciencia de Programación Neurolingüística (PNL), creada por John Grinder y Richard Bandler, en los años 70s y con fundamentos del Super-Aprendizaje, método diseñado por el magnífico Psicólogo Búlgaro Georgi Lozanov.La... Read more

Poemas del Poeta del Catatumbo

By: Iván Pallares Rincón

Narrated by: Iván Pallares Rincón

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra fue diseñada con técnicas de Programación Neurolingüística (PNL).Se han aplicado principios fundamentales de la Ciencia de Programación Neurolingüística (PNL), creada por John Grinder y Richard Bandler, en los años 70s y con fundamentos del Super-Aprendizaje, método diseñado por el magnífico Psicólogo Búlgaro Georgi Lozanov.La... Read more