Poetry bestsellers

The Iliad

By: Homer & Emily Wilson (Translator)
Narrated by: Nathan Brooks
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

"The Iliad," attributed to Homer, is an epic poem from the 8th century BC that centers on the dramatic events of the Trojan War. The narrative particularly focuses on the wrath of Achilles, a Greek hero, and explores themes of honor, glory, and the relationship between mortals and deities. This work is often regarded as one of the cornerstones... Read more

A Little Daylight Left

Poems

By: Sarah Kay
Narrated by: Sarah Kay
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

A vulnerable, searching collection about facing the beautiful & difficult parts of our humanness with compassion & wonder

“This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Timesbestselling author of There’s Always This Year

from somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice asks /... Read more

You Are Here

Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon
Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.



You Are... Read more

The Odyssey

Penguin Audio Classics

By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

“Homer's Odyssey was always meant to be heard, not read. This is the best translation with the best reader. Accept no substitutes. Read more

Now We Are Six

Winnie-the-Pooh: Book #4

By: A. A. Milne
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 1 hour

This second collection of poems from A. A. Milne includes works such as Furry Bear, Sneezles, and Buttercup Days as well as an appearance by the beloved children's character Winnie-the-Pooh. With gentle humor and whimsical lines, Now We Are Six is perfect for anyone—whether you're six or sixty-six. Read more

Falling Back in Love with Being Human

Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom
Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

“A perfect, poetic work of art by an imperfect, beautiful person. Do the audiobook version if you can. Her performance and words make you feel all the things. Read more

Devotions

The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“Reading any collection of beautiful poetry in a short period of time is immersive, dare I say life-altering. Reading Devotions is somehow more intimate than even that. Oliver’s way of viewing the world is so crystal-clear, so inviting. Every poem is like taking a step outside and breathing in a lungful of crisp, clean, cold air. Her way of... Read more

Paper Boat

New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age

Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.

In pieces that are at... Read more

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

“Damn, I love Ross Gay. Whether in essay (as in The Book of Delights - phenomenal - or Inciting Joy - currently reading) or in poem (here!), he writes with such a large-hearted, open-armed, joyous, rowdy, occasionally quite dirty in more ways than one, profoundly moved and deeply moving way of looking at the world. Here, the poems plumb the... Read more

The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings

By: Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman
Narrated by: Jolie Taylor
Length: 50 minutes

40 fun poems that explore big feelings and emotions. This whimsical journey through verse and illustrations can help children recognize and understand their big emotions. From the imaginative minds of Brandon Dorman, renowned illustrator of Goosebumps, Land of Stories, and Fablehaven, and Booktok creator Jolie Taylor comes a whimsical... Read more

Milk and Honey

By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

“This is such a poetic/painful recollection of the female experience. Through early sexual abuse to navigating adult pair bonding, Kaur have compiled poems that feel like my own experiences. I’m sure others can relate to this as well - unifying her personal experiences with the readers. Read more

Out Of This World

Poems to make you laugh, smile and think

By: Michael Rosen
Narrated by: Michael Rosen
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

A brand new collection of poetry by former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, with illustrations by acclaimed artist Ed Vere. What would it be like to live in the future? Or underwater? What would you do if you could go back in time? Or be a cat? Or a blood cell? What would happen if a... Read more

Life is Love

A collection of 100 poems from my experience of love and life

By: Tom Stodulka
Narrated by: Tom Stodulka & Jordan Kirk
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Tom Stodulka has loved to write for many years, though as a child he found this form of expression was a struggle. As the years progressed, through high school and law school, Stodulka gained an appreciation of language and how it could be used a s a tool for making a difference. His confidence grew enough to write diaries of his life in the... Read more

Rumi's Little Book of Life

The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

By: Rumi
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin,... Read more

Aednan

An Epic

By: Linnea Axelsson
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • The winner of Sweden’s most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational novel-in-verse about two Sámi families and their quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial trauma.

“Crystalline prose that reads like poetry and myth at once.... Read more

A Poetry Handbook

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With... Read more

Beowulf: A New Translation

By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“Narrated by JD Jackson. Sooo good! I listened to to this book 3x.!!! Beautiful! Read more

44 Poems on Being with Each Other

A Poetry Unbound Collection

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems curated by Pádraig Ó Tuama, the host of On Being's Poetry Unbound podcast.



44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem,... Read more

The Inferno of Dante

A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky

Penguin Audio Classics

By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart & Louise Glück
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon... Read more

Metamorphoses

Penguin Classics

By: Ovid
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya & David Raeburn
Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney.

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of... Read more

The Poetic Edda

Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

By: Jackson Crawford
Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

“The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion’s share of... Read more

The Moon That Turns You Back

Poems

By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Hala Alyan
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one... Read more

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sonnets

By: Diane Seuss
Narrated by: Diane Seuss
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY



WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY



WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION



WINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY



A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize



"The sonnet, like... Read more

How To Write Evocative Poetry

A Guidebook For Unlocking Creativity, Expressing Truth & Captivating Imagination

By: Zachary Phillips
Narrated by: Zachary Phillips
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Journey into the captivating world of poetic expression with renowned author and poet, Zachary Phillips. Whether you are an aspiring poet or a seasoned writer looking to elevate your craft, this enlightening guide is your key to unlocking the power of words and creating evocative, soul-stirring poetry.Within these pages, Zachary Phillips... Read more

We Alive, Beloved

Poems

By: Frederick Joseph
Narrated by: Frederick Joseph
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

NYT Bestselling Author, Frederick Joseph, explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Black, highlighting the hope that can be found in childhood, or by sharing intimate truths revealed on a mental health journey. This book will appeal... Read more

The Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Hala Alyan
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." —LitHub



For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith—winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive... Read more

W. B. Yeats: Poems

By: William Butler Yeats
Narrated by: T.P. McKenna
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Wild Swans at... Read more

The Ultimate Poetry Collection

Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry

Argo Classics

By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, William Wordsworth, WB Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon, John Keats, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ted Hughes, Percy Bysshe Shelley & Wilfred Owen
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford & full cast
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A... Read more

Untamed Tales of Horror; Edgar Allen Poe; The Definitive Collection

By: Geoffrey Giuliano and The Icon Players
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano and The Icon Players
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of Poe's work was inspired by the events that happened around him. His poetry alone would ensure his spot in the literary canon. Poe's notable verses range from the... Read more

One Hundred Favourite Poems - Abridged

Poems for all occasions, chosen by Classic FM listeners

By: Classic FM
Narrated by: Adrian Irvine, Alec McCowen, Charles Collingwood, David Tennant, Donald Douglas, Douglas Hodge, Gareth Armstrong, Joanna Lumley, John Gielgud, John Hannah, Jonathan Aris, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Liza Ross, Nichola McAuliffe, Nicol Williams, Pam Ayres, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Griffiths, Richard Wilson, Roger McGough, Samantha Bond, Sandra Duncan, Simon Callow, Sir Anthony Sher, T. P. McKenna & Vanessa Redgrave
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

This delightful anthology is a timeless collection of poems chosen by Classic FM listeners.

With humorous limericks, romantic sonnets, traditional and modern classics, this book is a true refelction of the greatest and best-loved verse. Discover poems for special occasions, as well as poems to suit any mood.

Whether you're reading them for the... Read more

you are your own fairy tale

the audiobook collection

By: Amanda Lovelace
Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

An audiobook collection of empowering poetry that proves the only thing needed for a happily ever after is yourself.

Read by author amanda lovelace herself, you are your own fairy tale: the audiobook collection features the three enchanting poetry books that round out the collection: break your glass slippers, shine your icy crown, and unlock... Read more

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

By: Amanda Lovelace
Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace
Length: 37 minutes

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

I Am Maria

My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home

By: Maria Shriver
Narrated by: Maria Shriver
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days.

I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver’s own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss,... Read more

Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

“I was stunned by Vuong’s gorgeous prose and raw revelations. Time is a Mother was an intense experience. The audiobook is less that two hours, but I have spent days thinking about Vuong’s words. I highly recommend this incredible poetry collection. Read more

Forest of Noise

Poems

By: Mosab Abu Toha
Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

““What can you see when your eyes are closed?” A Gazan mother tells her children just that with the hope of quelling their fears, despite being surrounded by bombs and their eradicating light. Reader, open your heart if your eyes are unwilling. Everyone’s humanity is at stake if the suffering in Palestine doesn’t wake you up to witness the truth.... Read more

The Hill We Climb

An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman
Narrated by: Amanda Gorman & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 9 minutes

Amanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration

“Stunning.” —CNN 
“Dynamic.” —NPR
“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue


On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th... Read more

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

A Fortune For Your Disaster

Poems

By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

“Hanif Abdurraquib’s powerful collection of poems explores the unending heartbreak of being black in America and how to find strength and self-actualization. Landscaped by graves, mirrors, and music these poems take the personal grief of being barked at by dogs and frames and re-frames those aggression into explorations on how our nation’s... Read more

At Blackwater Pond

Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour

Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer
Narrated by: Daniel Mendelsohn
Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

This is an audiobook version of this book.

A landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
 
In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer’s The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has served to introduce readers to the ancient... Read more

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi
Narrated by: Franny Choi
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

“Every day of my life has been something other than my last. Every day, an extinction misfires, and I put it to work. Franny Choi’s speculative poetry is so incisive, imaginative, and moving. Here, she counters the notion that apocalypse is something we anticipate, showing again and again that apocalypse is historical and ongoing, especially for... Read more

The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope
Narrated by: Wendy Cope
Length: 47 minutes

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. With additional poems from Wendy Cope's Collected Poems. Read by the author. In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of... Read more

Make Me Rain

Poems & Prose

By: Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

“I would not call myself a poetry reader, but there is something about Nikki Giovanni’s poetry that speaks to me so deeply. Sentimental and comforting, Make Me Rain covers a wide range of topics, from quilts and rising bread to the social change we so desperately need in our world. Giovanni’s wisdom and understanding once again prove why she is... Read more

Postcolonial Love Poem

Poems

By: Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

“Pulitzer Prize-winning Postcolonial Love Poem will make you want Natalie Diaz to write a love poem about you. Here, she writes sensual lesbian poems and warm platonic ones, poems about water and basketball and things lost in translation. Her elegant poetry begs to be studied—add this stunner from a Mexican Mojave poet to your shelf, and eat it... Read more

Apple

(Skin to the Core)

By: Eric Gansworth
Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside.Eric Gansworth is... Read more

Some Things I Still Can't Tell You

Poems

By: Misha Collins
Narrated by: Misha Collins
Length: 57 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his “Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well... Read more

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

Seedbank

By: Mikeas Sánchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

“This audiobook is so wonderful as it reads each poem in all three languages: the translation into English, as well as the original Zoque and Spanish. Hearing the Zoque read aloud is incredibly powerful to me as a reader and knowledge-seeker, because it expanded my understanding of the language and actively preserves its sounds and rhythms. I was... Read more

The Iliad

A New Translation by Caroline Alexander

By: Homer & Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more

Tao Te Ching

A New English Version

By: Stephen Mitchell & Lao Tzu
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

In 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the universe. Stephen Mitchell's bestselling version has been... Read more

Observations of Life in Verse

Recited by the Poet

By: Violet Harrington
Narrated by: Violet Harrington
Length: 42 minutes

Allow yourself to be inspired by Violet Harrington's enjoyable poetry which springs from a wealth of lived experiences read by this extraordinary person herself.In this special audio version, Violet reads these poems herself at almost a 100 years of age and life experience with her unmistakable and charming East End accent. This makes this... Read more