Poetry audiobooks

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson & Stanley W...

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh & Lolita Chakrabarti

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic... Read more

Where Decay Sleeps

By: Anna Cheung

Narrated by: Anna Cheung

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Red across black, the blood moonsmeared her lunar cycle across the nightshedding the sky from scarlet to rust.His gardenawakened
Where Decay Sleeps lays 36 poems on the undertaker’s table, revealing to us the seven stages of decay: pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, livor mortis, putrefaction, decomposition and skeletonisation. Readers... Read more

A BUEN JUEZ, MEJOR TESTIGO.

By: José Zorrilla

Narrated by: Ildefonso Escobar Rubio

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A buen juez, mejor testigo es una leyenda de versos octosílabos de José Zorrilla incluida en su volumen Poesías (1838) e inspirada en la tradición toledana del Cristo de la Vega, que, milagrosamente, declara como testigo del incumplimiento de una promesa de boda. Read more

Requeening

By: Amanda Moore

Narrated by: Amanda Moore

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging... Read more

La Ilusión del Movimiento

By: Alvaro Sangregorio

Narrated by: Alvaro Sangregorio

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Has escuchado recitar a Álvaro Sangregorio? No te dejará indiferente... En este audiolibro, recita sus propios poemas.La Ilusión del Movimiento es el primer libro publicado por Álvaro Sangregorio. En él reivindica la vigencia de la rima y la musicalidad explícita en la poesía contemporánea. La poesía se concibe para ser leída en voz alta, para... Read more

Roaming

By: Lucy Luo

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucy Luo Author, Artist, Curator. Born in Beijing, China. Studied in London, Britain. Lives in NY, America. Published 4 books: Afternoon Tea 2005 (essay) Solo Dancing in Britain 2007 (essay) Roaming The Borders Of Heaven 2007 (poem) Sweet London Night 2011 (novel) Member of China Writers Association Member of The Poetry institute of... Read more

There's a Light at the End of My Muddle

By: Ellen Palestrant

Narrated by: Ellen Palestrant

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You will have fun listening to "There's a Light at the End of My Muddle", read by the author Ellen Palestrant. There are more than seventy, highly original poems, limericks and tongue-twisters in this collection such as My Story is a Hula-Hoop, Slurping Pasta, Colors are a Magic Trick and Thorny Thicket Thistles. All are entertaining,... Read more

La mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage

By: Benoit Pinette

Narrated by: Benoit Pinette

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Comment éteindre ce qui brûle depuis toujours quand nous sommes tous constitués de tisons qui refusent de mourir ? Avec bonté et résilience, Benoit Pinette retourne à son enfance – un pays en soi, une trajectoire – et pose le doigt sur ses instants douloureux, étudie l’équilibre des époques. Il construit de là sa compréhension des glissements... Read more

House Fires

By: Connor Franta

Narrated by: Connor Franta

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of A Work in Progress and Note to Self moves fully into adulthood with his illuminating, soulful, bleeding collection of narrative, poetry, and original film photography.

Humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator Connor Franta first captivated readers with A Work In Progress, ruminating on his... Read more

Shoulder Tap

By: Maurice Riordan

Narrated by: Maurice Riordan

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting... Read more

15 Japanese Short Stories for Beginners

By: Christian Tamaka Pedersen

Narrated by: Christian Tamaka Pedersen & Miho Araki

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a collection of 15 entertaining and culturally interesting Japanese short stories for beginners and intermediate Japanese learners. The book also includes many unique mystery stories that will stimulate your imagination.This Japanese audio book is not designed only for Japanese language students, but also for those who appreciate... Read more

Muses and Rhymes

By: Dr. Mansur Hasib

Narrated by: Dr. Mansur Hasib

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Your entire family can enjoy listening to this preserved collection of my writings from 1968-1975, from 7th grade to just after high school. Some are poems, some songs, some just thoughts with a rhythmic pattern. I believe these early writings helped me to develop an appreciation for the beauty and inspirational power of the English language and... Read more

I Love You, Call Me Back

By: Sabrina Benaim

Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxiety, and longing—and finding peace, and even joy, in unexpected places

Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks, has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma... Read more

Premonition

By: Plamen Sivov

Narrated by: Plamen Sivov

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Plamen Sivov was born in Bulgaria in 1970. He is a recognised singer-songwriter, poet and journalist, holding a number of national poetry awards and recognitions. His poetry has been translated in English, Russian and Polish. This book presents 17 of his poems, translated by Diana Stefanova.Sivov manages to convey the singularity of an... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Sumit Kaul

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prophet is a book of prose poetry that made its Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran famous. Originally published in 1923, the book begins with a man named Almustafa living on an island called Orphalese. Locals consider him something of a sage, but he is from elsewhere and has waited twelve years for the right ship to take him home. From a... Read more

Machete

By: Tomás Q. Morín

Narrated by: Tomás Q. Morín

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts.
 
"Morín's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds." —LitHub

"Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He... Read more

Into the Storyverse

By: George Johnston

Narrated by: George Johnston

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Alan is wrenched from this life by suicide. Dusty, haunted by the loss of the man he thought he knew, must deal with his own regrets before accepting one final task for his friend. Every step takes Dusty further from the friend he remembers and closer to the man he is becoming. Dusty's outer and inner worlds collide as apathy and depression are... Read more

Schmetterling im Winter (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Tobias Bamborschke

Narrated by: Tobias Bamborschke

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobias Bamborschke, 1988 in Köln geboren und in Berlin aufgewachsen, ist Sänger und Texter der Band Isolation Berlin. Bamborschke beherrscht die Kunst, seine Leser und Zuhörer in den Bann zu ziehen und hat bereits als Lyriker für Aufsehen gesorgt. 2017 erschien sein viel beachteter erster Gedichtband "Mir platzt der Kotzkragen". Lakonisch und... Read more

Dancing By The Light of The Moon

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion

Includes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year

A POEM CAN . . .
Comfort · Challenge · Be a friend
Stretch your vocabulary
Help you... Read more

Every Good Boy Does Fine

By: Calvin Arsenia

Narrated by: Calvin Arsenia

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Glowing with warmth, vulnerability, and a heavy heart, Arsenia’s intimate reflections depict the past and present wrestling within the individual as he endeavors to chart his own course in the world.”—Atwood Magazine

Both a journey of individual healing and a call for action, these poems show that, with a little love and acceptance, anyone can... Read more

Borderline Fortune

By: Teresa K. Miller

Narrated by: Teresa K. Miller

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry Series–winning poet who “refus[es] the mind’s limits” (Carol Muske-Dukes)

Borderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance—of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particular—set against the backdrop of our... Read more

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

By: Amanda Lovelace

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems.

within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is... Read more

Murmuration

By: Blake Auden

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Murmuration is a year's worth of emotions, anxious thoughts, and panic attacks, each one a beating wing in the mind of the author.



This book is an attempt to create something beautiful from this chaos; to make sense of the things we dare not breathe to life. Focusing on loss, heartbreak, mental health, and the impact of isolation on a tired mind,... Read more

A Confederacy of Dumptys

By: John Lithgow

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The next book in John Lithgow's New York Times bestselling series

Following the success of New York Times bestsellers Dumpty and Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents the third book in his runaway hit series. A Confederacy of Dumptys takes us through a history of twenty-five "American... Read more