Poetry audiobooks

The Poems of Charlotte Brontë

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Jan Hartley

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Brontë, who used the pen name Currer Bell, is best known for Jane Eyre, one of the most famous of English novels.

This audiobook collects together ten of her... Read more

In Beauty with Thee, God

By: Eugene St. Martin, Jr.

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

E.C. has been a groundskeeper for tennis courts, especially the green clay courts. He teaches tennis in the evenings in the parks. This book is about his prayers and reflections on his life and the game of tennis as he goes about working, teaching, playing, visiting friends, and going to church. Read more

Streams in the Desert

By: L. B. E. Cowman

Narrated by: Diana Batarseh

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Refresh your weary soul with living water from God's Word.Everyone goes through difficult seasons, tough losses, and moments that feel unbearable. In today's world, people thirst more than ever for reassurance and guidance. Streams in the Desert provides a river of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration to weary travelers.ABC's Good Morning... Read more

Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Dan Stevens & Max Deacon

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens.

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these... Read more

This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half... Read more

Poèmes de John Keats

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Mort de tuberculose à vingt-cinq ans, John Keats eut une carrière poétique d'une fulgurante brièveté, suffisamment intense pour faire de lui un des poètes romantiques anglais les plus importants de sa génération. Nourries de la perte d'un amour premier dont Keats ne put jamais faire le deuil, ses écritures se placent sous le soleil noir de la... Read more

16 poems by Charles Baudelaire

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Great philosophy doesn't have to be boring. The deepest minds can also be the wittiest, and these 100 quotes shine a revealing light on the humor of the best philosophers. We have selected for you the most interesting quotes about philosophy, having its own greatest figures reveal its humorous side: Nietzsche, Spinoza, Socrates, Plato, and also... Read more

28 poems by Victor Hugo

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Intelligence and cleverness are never boring. We have selected for you 100 quotes from the wittiest authors ever, from Oscar Wilde to Jerry Seinfeld, with the help of Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and many others. Enjoy these pearls of humor to brighten your day with a good laugh, discover invaluable remarks and jokes... Read more

Poèmes de Walt Whitman

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Walt Whitman : ce poète et humaniste fut à l'origine des plus grandes pages de poésie des temps modernes. Elles eurent pour créateur un solitaire américain poussé comme un gratte-ciel dans un désert inculte de maisons à bas étages. Whitman est considéré comme un des deux piliers de la poésie américaine du XIXe siècle, avec Emily Dickinson. Sa... Read more

100 haikus, poésie japonaise

By: Anonyme

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Fondement de la poésie japonaise, le haiku est un petit poème extrêmement bref, qui vise à dire et célébrer l'évanescence des choses. Sa forme est codifiée : c'est un tercet de trois vers de cinq, sept et cinq syllabes. Les haïkus ne sont connus en Occident que depuis le tout début du XXe siècle. Nous avons sélectionné pour vous 100 de ces plus... Read more

Anthologie de la poésie française

By: Du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Lamartine, Alf...

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

60 plus beaux poèmes de la poésie française : 60 textes pour présenter aux plus jeunes toute la richesse de notre patrimoine, 60 oeuvres universellement applaudies pour leur faire découvrir le plaisir du texte et les introduire au bonheur de la littérature. Pour les autres, ce seront autant de retrouvailles avec les syllabes enchanteresses qui... Read more

Poèmes de Paul Verlaine

By: Paul Verlaine

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Avec Baudelaire, Mallarmé et Rimbaud, avec qui il eut une relation orageuse, Paul Verlaine est un des poètes les plus influents de la fin du XIXe siècle. Archétype du poète maudit, il est vite reconnu comme un maître : son style fluide et musical, jouant avec les rythmes impairs, et la mélancolie de ses poèmes faits de clairs-obscurs révèlent... Read more

Great French Poems

By: Baudelaire, Hugo & Villon

Narrated by: Bill Homewood

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are 35 of the greatest poems in the French language, carefully selected and read in French by Bill Homewood, the bilingual English classical actor who has spent half his life in France. To help those English speakers with just a little French to appreciate the glories of these poems, he provides his own clear English translations.

The poems... Read more

Love & Misadventure

By: Lang Leav

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure, this updated audiobook edition features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Love & Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through the highly relatable themes of love—from the initial butterflies,... Read more

Alcools

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

Narrated by: Christian Olivier

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Et tu bois cet alcool brûlant comme ta vie Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau de vie. Premier recueil de poèmes d'Apollinaire,  Alcools  est publié en 1913, alors que certains poèmes du recueil  ont été  écrits dès 1902. Apollinaire y mêle différents motifs comme la souffrance amoureuse, la mélancolie et le passage du temps, la ville moderne, ou... Read more

Lullabies

By: Lang Leav

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss. Love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Read more

Pond Mountain Tales

By: Ed Gentle

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Pond Mountain Tales” recalls experiences of the author during his eleven-year stay at Pond Mountain, a two-hundred-acre farm, with his first wife, their three sons, and eight dogs. Close encounters with snakes, blue herons, geese, turkeys, and vultures were a daily experience. Three lakes teeming with fish framed a story of the author's... Read more

Memories

By: Lang Leav

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Lang Leav, beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The best of Leav's evocative poetry in a gorgeous package! Read more

A Living Friend

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly & Coleman Barks

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Bly is in beautiful form, reading seven of his own poems from Stealing Sugar from the Castle and Coleman Barks reads some segments from the Shams Tabriz Sayings, as well as Rumi poems.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Poems of the Elder Edda

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, ThomaS Landbo, Matthew Posner ...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Prose Edda, a collection of narrative literature, and its companion, the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and 13th centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex... Read more

B

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Sarah Kay

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly performed, it is a family tradition waiting to begin. Read more

SternenBlick

By: Stephanie Mattner

Narrated by: Dr. Tommi Horwath & Rita Hatzmann

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Gut 50 Autorinnen und Autoren wagen in dieser Anthologie ihre ganz persönliche Rückschau zum Thema: Kindheit und Kindsein. Lassen Sie sich verzaubern! Als ein Ausdruck von Liebe zur Poesie, ist dieses Hörbuch aus der Idee gereift, zeitgenössische Dichter und ihre Gedanken hören zu wollen und entwickelte sich zu einem Treffpunkt an dem... Read more

Joy

By: Abigail Santamaria

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis’ shadow, where she has long been hidden, to reveal a powerful writer and thinker.Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis’ memoir A Grief Observed. Now, through extraordinary... Read more

Travelling Tinker Man & Other Rhymes

By: David Essex

Narrated by: David Essex

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

In the 70s he was a huge pop star, with Number 1 hits like 'Rock On' and 'Hold Me Close'. In the 80s and 90s he became a star of the stage with lead roles in Godspell and Mutiny! Now comes a wonderful collection of David Essex's poetry and lyrics. Here are nostalgic poems recalling his family's traveller roots, verses filled with memories of his... Read more