Poetry audiobooks

Acrobat

By: Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Narrated by: Nandana Sen

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature

A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both... Read more

Stereo(TYPE)

By: Jonah Mixon-Webster

Narrated by: Jonah Mixon-Webster, Angie Fisher, Danny Boy St...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom.
 
A PEN America Literary Award Winner


Jonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region, sexuality and class. Stereo(TYPE), his debut collection of poetry, is a reckoning and a force, a... Read more

Diamonds In The Sky

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Original poetry read by the author poet and short story writer Rachel Lawson on Allpoetry.com Read more

Poesía

By: Mario Daniel Brizuela

Narrated by: Mario Daniel Brizuela

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Algunas veces preciso una cariciapara seguir el viaje.Un suspiro de clavel,una lágrima de viento,un reflejo de lluvia...
Otras veces me alcanza con lo puesto,apenas un tono por encima del tedio,de la gris melancolía de los domingosy la fresca ilusión de los lunes.
Casi todos los días me ilusiono con la viday mi alma se eleva, liviana como una... Read more

The Collection Plate

By: Kendra Allen

Narrated by: Kendra Allen

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found... Read more

Somebody Else Sold the World

By: Adrian Matejka

Narrated by: Adrian Matejka

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize

The poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the ways we exist in an uncontrollable world: in love and its aftermaths, in families that divide... Read more

brainwaves

By: Ziggy Alberts

Narrated by: Ziggy Alberts

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

ABOUT THE BOOK A debut collection of poetry from platinum ARIA accredited artist Ziggy Alberts, 'brainwaves', explores life's experiences and emotions, inwards and out. Deeply personal, frank, insightful yet relatable, Alberts uncovers his introspective thoughts and lessons learned in conscious and intentional living. Differentiating from his... Read more

Alastor

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley & Bertram Do...

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Alastor


Or the Spirit of Solitude


And Other Poems


By Percy Bysshe Shelley


Narrated by Denis Daly


This meditation on artistic creativity was written during the latter months of 1815, during a sojourn on the border of Windsor Forest. Critics have concurred in the opinion that the anonymous hero of the poem is Shelley himself, who feared that he too... Read more

AMOR DE MADRE

By: José María Gabriel y Galán

Narrated by: Ildefonso Escobar

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Extraordinaria poesía del siempre genial poeta, José María Gabriel y Galán. Un poema que no te dejará indiferente, emocionante desde su primer verso, fuerte e impactante y con un final precioso, como es habitual en la obra del magnífico escritor. Read more

Murmurs of the Mad

By: Michael Eckel

Narrated by: Michael Eckel

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Turned on its head, reality’s madness becomes a comical carnival of the ridiculous with intervals of creative, contemplative verse.Within this collection of short stories and poems are the musings, struggles and cynicisms of those who see the political puppetry, the diminishing resources, the infinite greed, overconsumption, and violence that... Read more

The Exorcism

By: Catastrophic

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Exorcism is a book addressing the causes of my feelings of being unwanted. We all have our battles and I needed to clear my conscience which has led me to writing The Exorcism. Mental Health is a big part of my life and this world, so I feel like it is very important that we address and solve the problems we have so we don’t continue to lose... Read more

"In the Clover Forest Collection"

By: curtis schweiger jr

Narrated by: Kevin Theis

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Clover Forest Collection" is a collection of poems that was written in the month of march around S.T. Patrick's Day these are some of my favorites,curtis schweiger jr Read more

Todas mis muertes

By: Marcelo Schnock

Narrated by: Marcelo Schnock, Daniel Vera & Raúl Alonso

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Con 'Todas mis muertes', Marcelo Schnock recupera la dimensión sagrada de la poesía y su sentido órfico e iluminativo. Cada poema es una invitación a la interioridad y a la relación con el misterio de Dios.Partiendo de una obra dividida en dos partes bien diferenciadas y que podrían funcionar como dos libros independientes, 'Todas mis muertes'... Read more

Parallel Movement of the Hands

By: John Ashbery

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book 
Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length... Read more

Auguries of a Minor God

By: Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Narrated by: Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstandingdebut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin' David Wheatley, Guardian Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is... Read more

As I Ascend

By: Sina Hilbert

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

As I Ascend is an unforgettable collection of poems about love, race, and all things in between from Sina Hilbert in her book debut.In As I Ascend, Sina not only gives readers an intimate, unfiltered look into her own experiences with romantic love and heartbreak; she also explores self-love and love for her culture – Black culture. She examines... Read more

Black Obsidian

By: Sona Ghose

Narrated by: Manesha Ssri

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Brew a cuppa and ease yourself on your favorite chair. Black Obsidian offers a collection of spirited sentiments that will leave you aglow in the aftermath. A mélange of thoughts, unrestrained, brimming with the ability to nick and mend the heart time and again, dying and living at the same moment. Characters delighting in the pastels as well as... Read more

Kaavutheendalle

By: Sugathakumari

Narrated by: Jaisha Chacko

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

ഈ ഭൂമിയുടെ നിലനില്പിന് 'മനുഷ്യൻ' എന്ന ജീവിയാണ് ഭീഷണിയായിത്തീർന്നിട്ടുള്ളത്. അതിനു പരിഹാരം കാണേണ്ടതും ഭീഷണിക്ക് ഉത്തരവാദിയായ മനുഷ്യൻതന്നെ. സുഖഭോഗങ്ങളുടെ പിന്നാലെയുള്ള മനുഷ്യന്റെ ഭ്രാന്തമായ ഓട്ടം പ്രകൃതിയെ കീറിമുറിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു . 'അരുതേ, അരുതേ' എന്നു പറയാൻ ഒരാൾ നമുക്കിടയിൽ. പ്രകൃതി അമ്മയാണെന്നും അമ്മയെ മുറിപ്പെടുത്തരുതെന്നും... Read more

Mermaid Tales and Seaside Poems

By: Abbie Farwell Brown

Narrated by: AnnaLisa Bodtker

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

You would think that Wavilocks must be happy in her lovely home, where she has everything that a little mermaid could wish. But now she wants the diamond stars in the sky for a necklace and she will sulk and pout until she gets them.Wishes can come true, but you must be wise in your wishing. Sometimes a sad lesson is necessary to make you... Read more

Tuck-a-tuck Dragon

By: JL Morin

Narrated by: Stephan Theo

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Delightful dragons lead the way through this diverse, rhyming children's book to overcome childhood fears. The "boring Tan Dragon" wins the respect of his colorful peers when he faces his fear and realizes his special gift. Brilliant, often abstract, paintings by Stephan Theo and Nicole Theo illustrate this enchanting rhyme-Stephan Theo from the... Read more

Веселые сказки и стихи. Сборник

By: Самуил Маршак

Narrated by: Самуил Маршак, Игорь Ильинский, Николай Литвино...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Содержание: 1. Вступление 2. Радуга-дуга 3. Праздник леса 4. Мыльные пузыри 5. Ванька-встанька 6. Перчатки 7. Если бы, да кабы 8. В гостях у королевы 9. Поросята 10. Усатый-полосатый 11. От А до Я 12. Вот какой рассеянный 13. Кошкин дом 14. Багаж читает С Я Маршак 15. Мяч читает С Я Маршак 16.... Read more

The Gododdin

By: Gillian Clarke

Narrated by: Ceri Wyn Jones & Gillian Clarke

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition. The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles, only to... Read more

Phantompains

By: Therese Estacion

Narrated by: Therese Estacion

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.Taking inspiration from Filipino horror... Read more

Hey Humanity

By: Lidia Longorio

Narrated by: Lidia Longorio

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hey Humanity" is Lidia Longorio's debut book. It is a poetry book of her musings as an observer of humanity. Read more