Poetry audiobooks

William Shakespeare: 20 Dramen und Komödien

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hören Sie die zwanzig berühmtesten Stücke Shakespeares: Die Dramen: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo und Julia, König Lear, Timon von Athen / Die Komödien: Viel Lärm um nichts, Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der Sturm, Was Ihr wollt, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Der Kaufmann von Venedig, Das Wintermärchen, Maß für Maß, Die Komödie der Irrungen, Ende gut,... Read more

Red Sox Rhymes

By: Dick Flavin

Narrated by: Dick Flavin & Henry Strozier

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox.A commonwealth institution and popular local television personality who is also the announcer, ambassador, and poet laureate for Fenway Park, Dick Flavin has entertained audiences with his incredible poetic talent and... Read more

Wriggle and Roar!

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Justin Fletcher

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever I'm tired of being me
I swing around like a chimpanzee.

Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile and slither like a snake. Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the... Read more

Shuffle and Squelch

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Justin Fletcher

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Kick your boots off, everyone.
Summer's here and so's the sun.

In Shuffle and Squelch there are counting rhymes and animal rhymes, rhymes to make you shuffle and squelch and clatter and patter, and rhymes to make you gallop like a horse or slide down the banister.

From the fabulous picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt and... Read more

Perikles, Fürst von Tyrus

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Perikles ist bei Kaiser Antiochus in Ungnade gefallen, weil er dessen Schandtat erkannt hat, und so flieht er nach Tyrus. Dort heiratet er Thaisa. Auf See bringt sie eine Tochter zur Welt - und stirbt vermeintlich bei der Geburt. Doch auch Marina, die Tochter, bleibt vom Schicksal nicht verschont... Read more

Timon von Athen

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Timon von Athen ist ein reicher Mann. Er hat viele Freunde, doch erkennt er bald, dass es falsche Freunde sind, die nur an seinem Geld interessiert sind. Arm geworden, wendet er sich verbittert ab. Eines Tages findet er einen Goldschatz, und er schmiedet einen blutigen Racheplan... Read more

Wie es euch gefällt

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Herzog ist von seinem Bruder entmachtet worden und hat im Ardennerwald Zuflucht gesucht. Seine Tochter Rosalinde darf am Hofe bleiben, um Celia, des neuen Herzogs Tochter, Gesellschaft zu leisten. Eines Tages werden beide verbannt, und in Männerkleidung suchen sie Herzog Friedrich im Ardennerwald. Gefahren lauern, und auch die Liebe ist... Read more

Die beiden Veroneser

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Valentin und Proteus sind Freunde in Verona. Proteus ist in Julia verliebt, Valentin reist nach Mailand, um dort sein Glück zu machen. Er trifft Silvia und verliebt sich in sie. Proteus reist ihm nach und verliebt sich ebenfalls in Silvia. Doch die vergessene Julia gibt nicht auf und reist in Männerkleidung nach Mailand... Read more

Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Cymbeline ist König von England. Seine Tochter Imogen soll Cloten heiraten - doch sie ist schon vermählt, mit Posthumus, dem gebildetsten Manne Englands. Dieser wird verbannt, und schon droht Gefahr in Person von Iachimo, einem italienischen Kavalier… Read more

Ich hebe meine Augen in die Welt

By: Alfred Lichtenstein

Narrated by: Barbara Wittmann & Detlef Bierstedt

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Wittmann und Detlef Bierstedt interpretieren schrille Gedichte und einen grotesken Prosatext des großen Frühexpressionisten Alfred Lichtenstein: Es sind Porträts von Trinkern, grauen Clowns, Irren, Huren und Rummelplatzgestalten, von himmelblauen Exzentrikern, unschuldigen Kindern, parfümierten Pudeln und "eigen schauenden Frauen", von... Read more

Poèmes saturniens

By: Paul Verlaine

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

En 1866 parait Poèmes saturniens, tout premier recueil de Verlaine. Le poète maudit est alors âgé de 22 ans. Le titre évoque les astres et plus particulièrement Saturne, planète de la mélancolie qui inspire le poète dans le premier texte du recueil. Read more

Chasers of the Light

By: Tyler Knott Gregson

Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.

One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to... Read more

The Poetry of Lord Byron

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Linus Roache

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron’s poetry. Read by Linus Roache, star of the critically acclaimed film Wings of the Dove, this collection includes She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib, The Vision of Judgment and selections from Childe Harold, The Corsair and Don Juan. Read more

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

By: Kei Miller

Narrated by: Kei Miller

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it (‘I never get involved / with the muddy affairs of land'), is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this... Read more

Die göttliche Komödie

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Dirk Glodde

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Voltaire genoss Dante den höchsten Ruhm, den man als Dichter überhaupt erklimmen konnte. Dieser war nämlich berühmt, ohne das man ihn großartig gelesen hätte. Dantes "Göttliche Komödie" ist in den Schatz der Menschheit mehr oder weniger durch Hörensagen eingegangen. Immerhin haben sich zahlreiche Deutsche an eine Übersetzung gewagt, wobei... Read more

Der Mensch und das Meer

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Das dichterische Hauptwerk Baudelaires handelt vom Großstadtmenschen und dessen Ennui, einer mit Widerwillen, Unlust und Verdruss verbundenen Entfremdung gegenüber dem Dasein. Read more

Aurora Leigh - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrated by: Diana Quick

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick. Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de... Read more

Neon Aliens Ate My Homework

By: Nick Cannon

Narrated by: Nick Cannon

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Nick Cannon, entertainer extraordinaire, debuts his poetry book for children.Nick Cannon---the unstoppable entertainer, comedian, actor, and musician---was inspired to write Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems as a way to combine the worlds of poetry and hip-hop. These two mediums have shaped Nick... Read more

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Caroline Kennedy

Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Viola Davi...

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it...All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words". Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in... Read more

Introducing George The Poet

By: George the Poet

Narrated by: George the Poet

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The title is Search Party – the idea being that we’re all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.’

A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm – George The Poet is the voice of a new... Read more

Life’s Rhymes for Our Times

By: B. D. Mullins

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about a passion for writing. The poems contained herein are a selection of many which I have written. They are a variety of many places of the mind and in our times. Throughout the years I have been in contact with some special people and some special places. I have been offered a rare opportunity to be a part of recording things as... Read more

Valentines

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators, Susan Anspach, Stephanie Bea...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic love poetryComposed by many of the world’s best known and most celebrated poets—including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, and others—Valentines spans not only the ages, but the full range of passionate expression of love in all its forms and... Read more

Les fables de La Fontaine, l'intégrale

By: Jean de la Fontaine

Narrated by: Valérie Théodore

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

" Je me sers d'animaux pour instruire les hommes ". Les trois recueils des Fables de la Fontaine font le plus souvent intervenir des animaux anthropomorphes pour amener à une morale juste et pleine de sagesse. Read more

The flowers of Evil

By: Baudelaire

Narrated by: Stuart Walker

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Fairies" is a classic folk tale by Charles Perrault. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was often mistaken for her mother, so like her was she both in nature and in looks. Both of them were so disagreeable and arrogant that no one could live with them. The younger girl, who was a true likeness of her father... Read more