Poetry audiobooks

Poetics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Stacey Patterson

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς; Latin: De Poetica) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term that derives from a classical Greek term, ποιητής, that means "poet; author; maker" and in this... Read more

Lunar Honey - Abridged

By: Holly R. Toomer

Narrated by: Holly R. Toomer

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lunar Honey is a collection of poetry about evolving. The book is divided into 3 sections with thematic waves of love in various forms, culminating in self-empowering truths.
In Lunar Honey, Holly Toomer highlights romance, authenticity, social disparity, resilience, spirituality and purpose. The poems in this book reflect how an infatuated and... Read more

Sonnets of Sin & Salvation

By: Henry R Bouchot

Narrated by: Dwayne Tarver

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sonnets of Sin & Salvation, Henry Bouchot, a local city councilman with a close-up view of America's partisan strife, takes us on a guided journey through the seven circles of modern political hell. With wit, wryness, and plenty of real-life, examples, Henry shows us an unexpected way out of our political purgatory. Read more

Counting Backwards From Gone

By: Kat Savage

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 27, 2013, Kat Savage’s life forever changed. Her little sister, Angela, was brutally murdered and Savage has been searching for the strength to write her grief down ever since. Finally, just shy of six years later, and one year after justice finally rained down upon the man to blame, Savage found the courage to try. This collection... Read more

Poems of John of the Cross

By: David Lewis

Narrated by: Denis Daly & Sarah Bacaller

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems of John of the Cross


Translated by David Lewis


Narrated by Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller


Although his output was small, John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish poetry. All his verse explores the same theme: the seach of the soul for union with its creator and the glory of the resulting... Read more

Poetic Expressions in Nursing

By: Susan J. Farese MSN RN

Narrated by: Susan J. Farese MSN RN

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting collection of freeform poetry with over 40 poems by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, is a sharing of both professional and personal thoughts and feelings. Susan is a strong advocate of the creative use of poetry to express the wonderment, frustration, dedication, and the love of nurses for their profession and their patients.
Included is a... Read more

Home For Hurricanes

By: Nikki Murphy

Narrated by: Nikki Murphy

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

* Best Book Awards Winner by American Book Fest ** Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Honorable Mention * Abandoned by her hustling father, raised by her devoted mother, then battered by the winds of loss, heartbreak, and sexual assault, awarded Diversity & Inclusion Leader, speaker, poet and author Nikki Murphy provides a sobering... Read more

The Life

By: Carrie Fountain

Narrated by: Carrie Fountain

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful and wise poemsThe poems in Carrie Fountain’s third collection, The Life, exist somewhere, as Rilke says, between “our daily life” and “the great work”—an interstitial space where sidelong glances live alongside shouts to heaven. In elegant yet colloquial... Read more

La calma después de mi tormenta

By: Javi Guillamón

Narrated by: Rocío Fuentes

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Las primeras letras de este libro tienen algo más de diez años. Me encontraba inmerso en un cuadro de ansiedad generalizada y escribir lo que sentía era la única manera de sentirme libre. Por desgracia, ese amago de libertad duraba lo que el lápiz entre mis dedos. Con el paso del tiempo, contrario a lo que yo esperaba, nada mejoró. Las crisis de... Read more

Teeth in the Back of my Neck

By: Monika Radojevic

Narrated by: Monika Radojevic

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

An arresting debut collection about identity, ancestry and history, from a young poet selected as an inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers' Prize, dedicated to discovering the best writers of a new generation.

Chosen as one of Bustle's Best Debut Books of 2021

Written with profound depth and insight, the poems... Read more

Soft Thorns Vol. II

By: Bridgett Devoue

Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridgett Devoue takes you on a journey into the transformative world of love, lust, heartbreak, and abuse, and discovers the steps to finding lessons within pain.
why does love become abusive? and when does pain become a lesson?

Soft Thorns Vol. II is the continuation of author Bridgett Devoue’s debut poetry collection Soft Thorns and picks up on... Read more

Soft Thorns: The Audiobook Collection

By: Bridgett Devoue

Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A spoken word poetry collection for dreamers who crave to explore the unknown, through one young woman’s exploration of her darkest times and her path towards healing.
Bridgett Devoue’s poetry takes the listener on a journey into the world of love, lust, heartbreak, abuse, and the lessons learned along the way. This collection combines the... Read more

Soft Thorns

By: Bridgett Devoue

Narrated by: Bridgett Devoue

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The poetry living within these pages tells stories of love, heartbreak, freedom, oppression, sexual assault, sexism, hope, and humanity.  Our darkest times are where we grow the most, so in this book, i share mine, and together we learn how to heal.

Soft Thorns is a poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey through a young woman’s... Read more

The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Julie Fowlis, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn, Ch...

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a... Read more

Clouds are like People

By: Imani Lewis

Narrated by: Imani Lewis

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Clouds are like People is a collection of poems by national bestselling author Imani Lewis. It takes you on a mental journey as she compares the weather to everyday struggles such as heartbreak, depression, and love.Also enjoy 10 bonus poems from her previous release, Lunar Thoughts: A Poetry Book. Read more

Topsy-Turvy

By: Charles Bernstein

Narrated by: Charles Bernstein

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio version of acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein's most expansive and unruly collection to date is read in inimitable fashion by the author. It features poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of “covidity,” as Bernstein calls it in one of the book’s most poignantly disarming works, is characterized... Read more

Tarapada Ray - Shreshtho Kobita

By: Tarapada Ray

Narrated by: Arpan Mallick

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

তারাপদ রায় নানান ভাবে লিখতেন - তিনি ছিলেন একজন কবি, ছোট গল্প লেখক ও প্রবন্ধ রচনাকর।তিনি বিশেষ ভাবে তাঁর হাস্যরসের ব্যঙ্গাত্মক বোধের জন্য বিখ্যাত। তিনি বাংলাদেশ এ জন্মগ্রহণ করেন এবং জীবনের শেষ অংশ কলকাতায় বাশ করতেন। তার অফুরন্ত ছোট গল্প এবং ব্যঙ্গ প্রবন্ধ ছাড়া অসাধারণ কিছু কবিতা সৃষ্টি করে গেছেন লেখক। তিনি লিখতে এতো ভালোবাসতেন যে খবর রয়েছে যে... Read more

Nirendranath Chakraborty - Shreshtho Kobita

By: Nirendranath Chakraborty

Narrated by: Shanoli Majumder

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তীর শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা বাংলা সাহিত্যের এক নামকরা কবিতার বই। নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তী উলঙ্গ রাজার জন্য সাহিত্য একাডেমি অ্যাওয়ার্ড পান 1974 সালে। এই কবিতার বইটি তার শ্রেষ্ঠতম কাজের মধ্যে এক। শুনুন আজই শাঁওলী মজুমদারের কণ্ঠে - শুধুমাত্র স্টোরিটেল এ! Read more

Jasimuddin - Shreshtho Kobita

By: Jasimuddin

Narrated by: Deep Basu

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

জোসীমউদ্দীন অথবা জনপ্রিয় হিসাবে পরিচিত - পল্লী কবি ছিলেন এক বাংলাদেশী কবি, গীতিকার, সুরকার এবং লেখক।তাঁর কবিতা পরিচলিত হয় তাঁর ভূমিকেন্দ্রিক মডার্ন ব্যালাড সাগার লেখার ভঙ্গির জন্য। তাঁর লেখা নকশি কান্তর মাঠ ও স্বজন বাদিয়ার ঘাট কে বাংলা ভাষায় লেখা সর্ব শ্রেষ্ঠ গীতিকার কবিতার মধ্যে ধরা হয়ে। আসুন শুনি জোসীমউদ্দীনের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা। Read more

Thunderbird

By: Dorothea Lasky

Narrated by: Dorothea Lasky

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los Angeles"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."—Julia Bloch, Bitch"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her... Read more

24 Pages and other poems

By: Lisa Fishman

Narrated by: Lisa Fishman

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesLisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other—whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions of lyric unfold, in this most unconventional elegy, by means of... Read more

Talkativeness

By: Michael Earl Craig

Narrated by: Michael Earl Craig

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesMichael Earl Craig furthers his existential, Lynchian leanings with masterfully composed new poems. He has borrowed the everyday and returned it defamiliarized, dark, and droll. Readers are ushered out of their contemporary bustle and into the intimate viewing room that is Craig’s cinematic fourth collection. Read more

Vida en Marte

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

En Vida en Marte, reconocido por el New York Times Book Reviewcomo uno de los poemarios más destacados del 2001 y galardonado en 2012 con el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer de Poesía, Tracy K. Smith imagina una banda sonora para el universo.Su poesía, con referencias tomadas de David Bowie y de la ciencia ficción, acompaña a los hallazgos y fallos... Read more

One Morning—

By: Rebecca Wolff

Narrated by: Rebecca Wolff

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded live in Los AngelesPoet, novelist, and Fence founder Rebecca Wolff’s internal monologue made external in poetry is uncanny. Her musical and darkly funny fourth collection, One Morning—, spans language, culture, art history, love, passion, grief, consumerism, environmental devastation, and the ekphrastic experience of pop and high... Read more