At Blackwater Pond
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
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 »
Many Miles
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her classic nature writing to her verses for her... Read More »
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read More »
The Classic Hundred Poems - Abridged
By: William Harmon & Various
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
An anthology every poetry lover should have: 100 carefully selected and beautifully read poems. Read More »
Milk and Honey
By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Now on audio! Rupi Kaur reads milk and honey, her New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey... Read More »
John Donne
By: John Donne
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as "no man is an island," "death be not proud," and "for whom the bell tolls," which provided the title for one of Ernest Hemingway's novels. John Donne used poems as a means of metaphysical inquiry and meditation as well as for very... Read More »
The Death of King Arthur
By: Simon Armitage
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale,... Read More »
The Aeneid
By: Virgil & W. F. Jackson Knight
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 14 hours
Abridged: No
This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rome. A unique hero, Aenas struggles and fights not for personal gain but for a civilization that will exist in the far future. Caught between passion and fate, his vision would change the course of the Western world. Virgil,... Read More »
Metamorphoses
By: Ovid & Frank Justus Miller
Narrated by: Barry Kraft
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification... Read More »
The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle, Thomas Okey & Philip H. Wicksteed
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this classic masterpiece, originally published in 1320, read by award-winning narrator Ralph Cosham. No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and of artistry. Dante's theme is universal; it involves the greatest concepts that man has ever attained. Only a genius... Read More »
William Blake
By: William Blake
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." -from "Auguries of Innocence" At the end of his life, William Blake gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought his work a new and intense interest and acclaim. A poet, artist, and... Read More »
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A Fortune For Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that... Read More »
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Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome
By: Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal & Paul Avgerinos
Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The United States is composed of and built by immigrants, and it has been a beacon to those in search of a new life for hundreds of years.
HOME is a collection of thirty-four poems and twelve songs inspired by a diverse group of immigrants who have made significant contributions to the United States. From Yo-Yo Ma to... Read More »
The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read More »
Beowulf - Abridged
By: Seamus Heaney
Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A New York Times Bestseller and Whitbread Book of the Year.
Heaney’s performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes... Read More »
The Odyssey
By: Robert Fitzgerald, Homer & D. S. Carne-Ross
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets. Macmillan Audio is delighted to publish the first ever audio edition of this classic work, the greatest of all epic poems. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited for audio, recounting the story of Odysseus'... Read More »
The Iliad
By: Robert Fitzgerald & Homer
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its authority and always fresh in its vivid rendering... Read More »
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Where to Begin
By: Cleo Wade
Narrated by: Cleo Wade
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Cleo Wade’s second anthology of heartfelt poetry and prose builds on the wisdom of her bestselling book Heart Talk, encouraging you to remain hopeful and harness your personal power to bring positive change into our world.
Where to Begin is perfect for those who are ready to be a part of building a society rooted in love, acceptance, justice, and... Read More »
The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer & J. U. Nicolson
Narrated by: a full cast & Martin Jarvis
Length: 20 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read More »
The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks & Coleman Barks
Narrated by: John Moyne, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson & Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than eighty never-before-published poems.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of... Read More »
Wade in the Water
By: Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted,... Read More »
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Dumpty
By: John Lithgow
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow wields a whip-smart, satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few abysmal years in politics. With lacerating wit, he takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Pruitt, Paul... Read More »
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Felon
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Narrated by: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).
Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace― and, in doing so,... Read More »
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The Rose That Blooms in the Night
By: Allie Michelle
Narrated by: Allie Michelle
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rose That Blooms in the Night is a collection of poems from spoken word poet, yoga instructor, podcaster, and Instagram influencer Allie Michelle. The collection is meant to be a mirror reflecting the love inside of those who read it. It tells the tale of transformational cycles we experience throughout our lives. Falling in and out of love.... Read More »
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