Poetry audiobooks

Bibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen 4 - Abridged

By: Various Artists & Wilhelm Müller

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

20 der schönsten deutschen Balladen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: Lützows wilde Jagd (Körner), Der Glockenguss zu Breslau, Der Lindenbaum, Das Hünengrab (alle Müller), Das versunkene Dorf, Barbarossa, Parabel (alle Rückert), Incubus (Grillparzer), Die Erscheinung (Prätzel), Der Reiter und der Bodensee, Das Gewitter (beide Schwab), Der... Read more

No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B,"Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. No Matter the Wreckage presents listeners with new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's talent for celebrating family, love, travel, and unlikely romance between inanimate objects ("The... Read more

The Type

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Kay's powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road toward empowerment, exploring the promise and complicated reality of being a woman.

During her spoken word poetry... Read more

West Mountain Epilogue - Abridged

By: Jay Parini

Narrated by: Jay Parini

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A reading by Jay Parini of thirty-three of his most celebrated poems.

Jay Parini's readings are always an event, but too rare. For the first time, Parini has recorded his best known and most recent poems in an audiobook that welcomes the listener to enter his universe, which revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his... Read more

An Angel’s Memorial Guide

By: Stephen Zuckerman

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An Angel’s Memorial Guide is a book of healing. It approaches healing, beginning from the loss of a loved one and then gradually exploring the many paths leading to the departed soul. If you read, meditate, and pray after reading each of the selections, you may discover a link to the beyond. The book shares with the reader how he or she can... Read more

Bibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen 3 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

20 der schönsten deutschen Balladen aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: Des ersten Bergmanns ewige Jugend (Achim von Arnim), Minnedienst, Das Burgfräulein von Windeck, Die Sonne bringt es an den Tag, Das Riesen-Spielzeug (alle Adelbert von Chamisso), Die zwei Gesellen, Der stille Grund, Waldgespräch, Das zerbrochne Ringlein, Die späte... Read more

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” was written by Oscar Wilde in France where he was in exile after his release from Reading Gaol. Wilde had been imprisoned and sentenced to two years hard labour. A hanging took place while Wilde was incarcerated and the poem is the narrative of the execution. Read more

Bibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen 2

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

20 der schönsten deutschen Balladen aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: Edward (Johann Gottfried Herder), Die Braut von Korinth, Der getreue Eckart, Der Totentanz (alle von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Die Sage vom Bischof Hatto (August Langbein), Romanze (Friedrich von Matthisson), Der fremde Spielmann (Carl Philipp Conz), Die Jungfrau... Read more

Like This

By: RumiRumi

Narrated by: Coleman Barks

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Jalaluddin Rumi, a spiritual mystic of the Islamic world, is recognized as one of the most influential poets in history. His words are charged with an unequalled blend of literary genius and spiritual wisdom. No matter how often we listen to Rumi, each time is always the first time. Like This is a compilation of more than twenty of the beloved... Read more

Bibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen 1 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

20 der schönsten deutschen Balladen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: Marianne (Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim), Die Wut der Frauen (Johann Friedrich Löwen), Die Wahl (Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel), Die Giftmörderin (Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling), Pyreneus und die Musen (Daniel Schiebeler), Die Nonne, Der alte Landmann an seinen Sohn (beide Ludwig... Read more

The Thought-Fox and Other Poems

By: Ted Hughes

Narrated by: Ted Hughes

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. He was also admired as a performer of his own work. In this 1994 recording, The Thought Fox and Other Poems, he reads a selection of poems from The Hawk in the Rain; Lupercal; Wodwo; Crow; Moortown;,... Read more

Autobiography of Red

By: Anne Carson

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.


Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile,... Read more

Matthias Claudius: Die schönsten Gedichte - Abridged

By: Matthias Claudius

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Gedichte von Matthias Claudius. Mit dabei: Abendlied, Christiane, Der Mensch, Täglich zu singen, Ein Lied vom Reifen, Ein Lied hinterm Ofen zu singen, Rheinweinlied, An einem Mai-Morgen, Ein Wiegenlied bei Mondschein zu singen, Die Sternseherin Lise, Kriegslied, Die Geschichte von Goliath und David in Reime bracht, Nach der... Read more

Poems

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Browning (1812-1889) playright and poet is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse of which he is a recognized master. He was not always popular in his own time but is now considered one of the foremost poets of Victorian England. This volume contains some of the best of the monologues including “Porphyria's Lover”,... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 4 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gedichte aus Klassik und Romantik. Mit dabei: Die Alster, Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur, Die Güte Gottes, Weihnachtslied, Die Katzen und der Hausherr, Die Schlange, Gesungen im Zelt, Letztes Lied, Die frühen Gräber, Das Rosenband, An sie, Der Zürcher See, Die Sommernacht, Der Tod, Das Wiedersehen, An den Schlaf, Die Sinngedichte an den Leser,... Read more

Here Is New York

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the... Read more

Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known mainly for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural and is an acknowledged master of these genres, he thought of himself primarily as a poet. Here is a collection of over thirty of his poems including two of the best known “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 3 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gedichte aus der Zeit des Barock und der Aufklärung. Mit dabei: Das Leben ist ein Kürbis, Lobgesang der Blumenkönigin, Morgenlied, Ein solcher, Der Mensch ist ein Schaum, Der Wein macht, dass einer anschaut, Mit essen und trinken, Nachtmusikanten, Der Lobende, Auf die wunderbaren Wirkungen des Gemüts und des Glücks, Spuren der... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 2: 17. Jahrhundert

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Gedichte aus der Zeit des Barock. Mit dabei: An sich, Auf den Tod eines Kindes, Wie er wolle geküsset sein, In allen meinen Taten, Ein getreues Herz wissen, An sich selbst, Menschliches Elende, Tränen des Vaterlandes, Schluss des 1648sten Jahres, Über die Geburt Jesu, Abend, Tränen in schwerer Krankheit, Verleugnung der Welt, Vanitas! Vanitatum... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 1: 15. - 17. Jahrhundert

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Gedichte aus der Zeit des Humanismus und Barock. Mit dabei: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Das Schlaraffenland, Gloria in excelsis deo, Auf die liederlichen Versverderber, Schönheit nicht wehrhaft, An die Teutschen, Sprachverderbnis, Abgedankte... Read more

Sonette an Orpheus (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Alexander Khuon

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In der berühmten Versdichtung "Sonette an Orpheus" zeichnet Rainer Maria Rilke die Lebensgeschichte des mythischen Sängers Orpheus nach. Eindringlich, poetisch, leidenschaftlich: Die Gedichte haben bis heute nichts von ihrem großen Reiz und ihrer intensiven Wirkung verloren. Read more

Sonette (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Michael Rotschopf

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Insgesamt 154 Sonette schreibt man Shakespeare zu. Kein Werk der Weltliteratur - außer der Bibel - wurde häufiger ins Deutsche übersetzt. Shakespeare besingt in seinen Sonetten das Begehren, die Angst vor dem Altern und die Folgen krankhafter Eifersucht. Er schuf damit eine moderne Form der Liebeslyrik, die bis heute nichts von ihrer... Read more

A Quartet of Tennyson

By: Alfred Tennyson

Narrated by: Helen Elizabeth G

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, a rector's son and fourth of 12 children and reportedly a descendant of King Edward III of England.

This audiobook collects together... Read more

Alfred Tennyson

By: Alfred Tennyson

Narrated by: Philip Bird & Jan Hartley

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, a rector's son and fourth of 12 children and reportedly a descendant of King Edward III of England.

This audiobook collects together... Read more