Poetry audiobooks

Manifest

By: Debbie Viale

Narrated by: Teagan McKenzie

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

These are my collection of poems that I wrote over the years. Some wonderful memories and experiences that I shared with people close to my heart. Read more

Mutiny

By: Phillip B. Williams

Narrated by: Phillip B. Williams

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 American Book Award
Finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 
Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Finalist for Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by The Boston Globe and Lit Hub

From the critically acclaimed author of Thief in the Interior who writes with "a... Read more

A Cinnamon Afternoon

By: Adrian Tanase

Narrated by: Adrian Tanase

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Cinnamon Afternoon is a collection of 144 poems that introduces the reader to a surreal world, that exists intertwined with our mundane, casual world, where everything is interconnected and exists simultaneously as reality and also as imagination. Visions, contemplative states, delightful incursions in the lands where everything exists as... Read more

It's Time to Rhyme

By: Janush Kohli, Ryan Gupta, Aadya Aggrawal, Aaliy...

Narrated by: Janush Kohli, Mahati Anand, Arnav Gupta & Shanv...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

IT IS TIME TO RYMHE, is a collection of beautifully self-written poems woven & narrated by students at PlanetSpark. Let these diverse verses leave an imprint & make you ponder about the power of poetry! Presenting the incredibly magical pieces by our talented bunch! Listen now!  Read more

Voyage of the Sable Venus

By: Robin Coste Lewis

Narrated by: Robin Coste Lewis

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice.
 
Robin Coste Lewis’s electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The... Read more

Poetry RX

By: Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetry to Heal, Inspire and Enjoy



Poetry Rx presents fifty great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times bestseller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy and everything in between: Love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to... Read more

Shakespeare in Autumn (Seasons Edition -- Fall)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Nathalie Pownall & Peter Bankole

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Shakespeare in Autumn Seasons Edition--Fall: Features selected works from William Shakespeare, history’s greatest and most influential writer of the English language. His poetry and plays have been recited and studied for generation upon generation and remain iconic works of literature Presents a small yet wide-reaching collection of the... Read more

Praising the Paradox

By: Tina Schumann

Narrated by: Tina Schumann

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to face the transient nature of life was named a finalist in the National Poetry Series, The New Issues Poetry Prize, The Four Way Books Intro Prize, and others. It was also listed as a “remarkable work” in the... Read more

200 Haiku Love Poems

By: Adrian Tanase

Narrated by: Adrian Tanase

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haiku love poems audiobook, I deliver an underlying message that is about romance. romantic love, and even more about the sacred feelings, perceptions, and sophisticated moods that deeper love creates. The audiobook itself is created in such a way, that it sets an almost meditative mood, where you can dwell in the simple message of... Read more

Nuevo sentimentario

By: Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, Juan Felipe Robledo & ...

Narrated by: Memo Márquez

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"El Nuevo sentimentario pretende retomar la tradición sentimental colombiana con 53 poetas nacidos desde 1960 hasta 1998, incluyendo las nuevas generaciones, pues los jóvenes son consagrados en el amor. Los poemas de este libro tienen que ver directamente con el amor, no como un pretexto sino como la materia central del poema. Son escenas... Read more

Coke Machine Glow

By: Gordon Downie

Narrated by: Dan Ayckroyd, Robbie Baker, Clare Downie, Cleme...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for the popular Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released his first solo record, Coke Machine Glow in Spring 2001. Alongside the album, his first book of poetry and prose under the same title was published, including the lyrics to the sixteen songs on the record. Now, on the 20th anniversary year of... Read more

Mountain Laurels

By: Genevieve C. Sparks

Narrated by: Kathy Bell Denton

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Mountain Laurels is the first published collection of poems written by Genevieve C. Sparks over many years in what she calls "the simple form of mountain colloquial." While some individual poems draw their meaning from a personal experience of the poet, "the basic thought of the book in its entirety is," she says, "the great inspiration derived... Read more

Indecency

By: Justin Phillip Reed

Narrated by: Justin Phillip Reed

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white... Read more

Stag's Leap

By: Sharon Olds

Narrated by: Sharon Olds

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the... Read more

If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse

By: Ellen Palestrant

Narrated by: Ellen Palestrant

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In If You Shut Your Eyes, You'll Hear Some Cosmic Verse, a collection of poems to be enjoyed by all ages, you will enter New Worlds of Possibility that are dreamlike, imaginative, humorous, lyrical, and thought-provoking. Poems from and inspired by The World of Glimpse, written and illustrated by Ellen Palestrant. A theatrical audio treat for... Read more

Poemas de Edgar Allan Poe - Abridged

By: Ángel Ferrer

Narrated by: Ángel Ferrer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta pequeña antología de Edgar Allan Poe, recoge, a mi modo de ver, los poemas más mágicos del autor. Es sabido que todos los poetas, durante su carrera, escriben poemas por oficio. Lo que quiere decir que no todos obedecen a las leyes naturales de la belleza, a la pulsión del poeta. Por esto, esta selección, son un fiel reflejo del mundo de... Read more

You Can't Keep It

By: K.B. Marie

Narrated by: K.B. Marie

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the sudden loss of her mother, poet K.B. Marie explores the meaning of life and love after great loss. Nature and zen themes featured throughout. Read more

Geetpurvak

By: Ankit Trivedi

Narrated by: Ankit Trivedi

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

આદ્ય કવિ નરસૈયાથી શરૂ થયેલી પદ્ય કવિતાનો નોંધપાત્ર સંગ્રહ. Read more

329 Haiku Poems for Your Spiritual Practice

By: Adrian Tanase

Narrated by: Adrian Tanase

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this rather extensive collection of 3-line Japanese haiku poems, the mystical blends with the simplicity of the world to create sacred, transparent, and yet profound and inspiring insights, to guide you further, on your spiritual path. Listening to these poems will sustain your mindfulness and will inspire you to practice/meditate more, in... Read more

The Lyme Letters

By: C. R. Grimmer

Narrated by: C. R. Grimmer

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a “Master.” R, in letter form and repurposed religious texts, also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer... Read more

Ordinary Blessings

By: Meta Herrick Carlson

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. This collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offers a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Listen to this book when the spirit moves you or when the spirit feels distant—the words will be here to inspire, calm, and encourage you either... Read more

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By: T.S. Eliot

Narrated by: Sam Kusi

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, is an analysis of a beleaguered, multi-layered, and conflicted suitor, trying to reconcile his dichotomy of having a foray of overwhelming ideas juxtaposed with underwhelming execution, in the arena of life and love. It was the poetic debut of the American-born, British poet, T.S Eliot. The poem was... Read more

Cry Back My Sea

By: Sarah Arvio

Narrated by: Sarah Arvio

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet

“I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love... Read more

Welcome to Midland

By: Logen Cure

Narrated by: Logen Cure

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Midland is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas (from the horned lizard to dirt storms to Laura Bush’s car accident), connecting events and movements from across eras to create a tenuous yet strong... Read more