Poetry audiobooks

Poesía para directiv@s con alma, pero sin tiempo

By: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Narrated by: Yolanda Saenz de Tejada

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Poesía para directiv@s con alma, pero sin tiempo", nace para acercar el mundo de las emociones a la empresa. Para salvarte del estrés y de la vida tan rápida que llevas cada día. Que te salve, también, de la vulgaridad, de la soledad y que te empape de ternura. Yolanda Sáenz de Tejada, autora y narradora de este libro, fusiona el coaching y la... Read more

Elijah

By: A LeRoy

Narrated by: A LeRoy

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dangerous Prophet for Dangerous Times!(Author's Narration)
Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath.
But he is not alone. Embraced by a shapeshifting goddess, counseled by a great angel, he is empowered to call down fire from Heaven!
In the spirit of Dante, Shakespeare, and Homer,... Read more

The Dark Interval

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash & Ulrich Baer

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.

“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins

“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The Guardian

Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s... Read more

The Body's Question

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves... Read more

The Great Poets: Lord Byron

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So... Read more

The Epics Collection

By: A LeRoy

Narrated by: A LeRoy

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dangerous Poet for Dangerous Times!(Author's narration)
Hailed as "an exemplar of epic poetry" (San Francisco Review of Books), Abdiel LeRoy recalls the spirit of Homer, the visions of Milton, the fire of Dante.…
1. Elijah
Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath... But he is not... Read more

Gunther Emmerlich liest weihnachtliche Gedichte u. Erzählungen (Ungekürzt)

By: Verschiedene Dichter

Narrated by: Gunther Emmerlich

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Gunther Emmerlich liest weihnachtliche Gedichte und Erzählungen Read more

Blutgeschwister - Modrichs zweiter Fall

By: Thomas Matiszik

Narrated by: Thomas Matiszik

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Jede dunkle Wahrheit kommt ans Licht. Ihr ausverkauftes Konzert nähert sich gerade dem fulminanten Höhepunkt, als die berühmte Sängerin Joe Sanderson mitten auf der Bühne erschossen wird. Tausende Fans stehen unter Schock. Doch dies ist erst der Beginn einer spektakulären Anschlagsserie auf Prominente. Kommissar Peer Modrich und seine Kollegin... Read more

That Looks On Tempests

By: Barbie Robinson

Narrated by: Barbie Robinson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"People, places and paradoxes. Barbie Robinson’s third book of poetry contains a playfulness to delight the reader along with sudden insights into the nature of relationships." - Sara Dowse, author of As the Lonely Fly and West BlockBarbie Robinson is a Canberra Australia-based arts advocate, artist and poet whose practice encompasses writing,... Read more

Best Friends

By: Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Highlights presents Best Friends written by Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, a rhyming poem about an old lady and a toddler spending an afternoon together. Read more

Weihnachtsgedichte und Geschichten

By: author

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

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The Yearning Heart

By: Hilary K Sinclair

Narrated by: Kate Marcin

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

These poems reflect an ongoing awareness journey. The search began via personal psychotherapy and encounter groups in a secular perspective in the seventies, predictably morphing into spiritual concerns. An intense involvement as a Christian later transcended into a more all-embracing vision. The poems, few though they are, are a natural... Read more

No Matter the Wreckage LIVE

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases the LIVE recording of her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. This live recording of Sarah Kay's reading of No Matter the Wreckage, at The Wild Project in NYC, presents listeners with the new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's... Read more

Alp(traumhafte) Kopflichtspiele

By: Joachim M. Karius

Narrated by: Joachim M. Karius

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hörspielbuch-Collage mit herzzerreißendem Hidden-Track, aus aphoristischen Salven und anderen literarischen Quickies, in Form von Gedichten, Szenen, Aphorismen und Kurzgeschichten. Mix: Sebastian Muxfeldt (Clouds Hill Studio Hamburg) Master: Chris von Rautenkranz (Soundgarden Hamburg) Read more

Madras On My Mind

By: Chitra Viraraghavan & Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

Narrated by: Sunil Nambiar

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story – and another and another – and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught in a noir plot, and a man in search of... Read more

Further Collected Poems

By: B.E. Stock

Narrated by: Lead Frederick

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Further Collected Poems contains selected lyrics from 2001 to 2017, divided roughly by theme or subject. “You and I” is about relationships, “We” is about society and institutions, “He” is about religion and spirituality, “Visions” is about ideas, and “Beauty’s Mead” is about art. The poems are in and out of form, in many modes and voices,... Read more

The Silver Pen

By: Jan Voth Dubbs

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

This author uses words as a sculptor uses clay. She doesn’t change the shape of the word; it’s the surrounding words that contain the poetic surprise. She explains that she personally likes to be surprised by a word that doesn’t usually follow another. It is a way to startle the reader into looking deeper into the thought. There are times when... Read more

She Must Be Mad

By: Charly Cox

Narrated by: Charly Cox

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Brave and beautiful.’ Stylist Magazine ‘Social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy’ Sunday Times STYLE ‘Divine.’ Cecelia Ahern This audiobook includes exclusive introductions to a select number of Charly’s poems, an interview between herself and her friend, Jack Harries, and music from Tom Rosenthal. ... Read more

Everything All at Once

By: Steven Camden

Narrated by: Steven Camden

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful collection of poems about the highs and lows of one week in a secondary school, where everything happens all at once.

Winner of the CLiPPA poetry award.

Zooming in across our cast of characters, we share moments that span everything from hoping to make it to the end of the week, facing it, fitting in, finding friends and falling out,... Read more

Poesía rupestre

By: Francisco Javier Martínez Melgar

Narrated by: Javier Martínez

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta colección de 79 poemas de verso libre se divide en seis apartados: Mitología, Súcubos, Guerras, América, Zarabanda tecnológica y Poesía rupestre. Cada apartado recopila poemas de temática similar, desde reinterpretaciones de la mitología griega clásica hasta temas políticos y místicos. Este poemario corresponde a la colección Voluta, la... Read more

Wine Songs, Vinegar Verses

By: Harambee Grey-Sun

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White & Caroline Morahan

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes lovers enter a relationship with the best of intentions but wind up in a place far from love.  Sometimes poets attempt love poems, simple and pure, but . . . Over breakfast, a husband trying to deny creeping out on his wife the previous night can’t help but give hints about the creepy things he really did. On a beach, a man minding his... Read more

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Narrated by: 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

Inferno

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Inferno is the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dante’s epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. In it, the author is lost in a dark wood, threatened by wild beasts and unable to find the right path to salvation. Notable for its nine circles of hell, the poem vividly illustrates the poetic justice of punishments faced by... Read more

Paradiso

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Paradiso is the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to salvation. In it, the author progresses through nine concentric spheres of heaven. Corresponding with medieval astronomy, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn deal with the four cardinal virtues Prudence,... Read more