Poetry audiobooks

T.S. Eliot reading poems

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: T.S. Eliot

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sleep problem is the number one problem for a growing number of men and women in our country. American worker productivity is high and continues to rise. According to a cross-national study released earlier this year by the International Labor Organization, American workers are the most productive in the world. This very high productivity at... Read more

Intuitions

By: Karl Kevin Smith

Narrated by: Gabe Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I like to observe and think before I write.
I try to be as creative as I can be when I do this. And I try to keep it real.
It is because I believe in conveying my thoughts
in that manner. Read more

Das Schöne an der Liebe

By: Gisela Steineckert

Narrated by: Gisela Steineckert

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Schöne an der Liebe ist, daß es sie gibt. Wer nicht furchtbar geliebt hat, hat nicht herrlich gelebt. Liebe kann ein Heimweg sein oder in Welten führen, die man besser nicht gesehen oder wenigstens früher verlassen hätte. In der Liebe liegen uns die richtigen Worte auf der Zunge, aber einen Augenblick zu spät heißt, eine Ewigkeit vertun.... Read more

Diesem Vaterland nicht meine Knochen

By: Peter Hacks

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Esche beherrschte virtuos den Wechsel vom Eleganten ins Freche, vom Groben ins Zarte, vom Strengen ins Verspielte, vom komischen in den hohen Ton. Diese CD ist ein besonderer Leckerbissen für die Freunde von Esches Vortragskunst. Das lyrische Werk von Peter Hacks ist vielgestaltig. Nach dem zuletzt erschienenen Band der Liebesgedichte ("Heile... Read more

"Der Zauberlehrling"

By: Eberhard Esche

Narrated by: Eberhard Esche

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brillanz, Schärfe und Gegenwärtigkeit, die nichts gemein hat mit platter Aktualisierung, kennzeichnen Eberhard Esches Interpretation klassischer deutscher Balladen und Gedichte. Esche zieht den Zuhörer einvernehmlich, ja zutraulich in den Text, um ihm unversehens den Boden geläufiger Deutungen zu nehmen, spricht Gefälliges ungefällig,... Read more

Faust I+II - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Fred Düren, Jörg Gudzuhn & Dieter Mann

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mephisto und Faust - Goethes Faust I und II als Zweierbeziehung Eine der bedeutendsten, in jeder Hinsicht spektakulären Rollen Fred Dürens war der Faust in der legendären Inszenierung von Adolf Dresen und Wolfgang Heinz im Jahr 1968. Aus der Frage, wie Düren den Faust wohl heute spielen würde, entstand der Plan, der Auffassung von einem jungen... Read more

Antología poética - Abridged

By: Jorge Debravo

Narrated by: Estudios Centroacústica

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jorge Debravo es uno de los poetas más reconocidos, publicados y estudiados de la literatura costarricense. Esta antología en versión audiolibro compila algunos de los poemas más representativos de su obra. De su obra poética se ha destacado su creatividad, su fe en el ser y en los valores humanos, su poder comunicativo a partir de un lenguaje... Read more

Poetry Please

By: Various Poets

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Anton Lesser

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.

The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to... Read more

The Iliad

By: 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

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could do it better." — Wall Street Journal

Robert Fitzgerald's... Read more

O, What a Luxury

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In his second collection of poetry (the first 77 Love Sonnets) Keillor writes—with his characteristic combination of humor and insight—on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily life. Keillor’s verses are charming and playful, locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human. Read more

The Inferno of Dante

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart & Louise Glück

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon... Read more

Meisterwerke erotischer Dichtung - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Jürgen Goslar

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meisterwerke erotischer Dichtung: Über die Lust und Wollust in der Verskunst der Dichter! Die erotischsten, zärtlichsten, wollüstigsten, aber auch lustigsten Gedichte aller Zeiten! Mit Werken von Walter von der Vogelweide, Giovanni Boccaccio, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wilhelm Busch bis hin zu Frank Wedekind! Unnachahmlich... Read more

Growls and Utterances

By: Bart Wolffe

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of poetry exploring themes to inspire and provoke. Read more

Ramayana

By: Valmiki

Narrated by: Sita Ramamurthy

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical retelling of one of the most important Hindu texts. Read more

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

By: Kevin Powers

Narrated by: Kevin Powers

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.

National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life:... Read more

Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Mary Oliver

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in... Read more

Gitanjali: Gedichte - Abridged

By: Rabindranath Tagore

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gitanjali bedeutet "Sangesopfer". Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1919), bengalischer Dichter, geboren in Kalkutta, erhielt für diese Gedichtsammlung als erster Asiate den Literaturnobelpreis (1913). In über einhundert Gedichten präsentiert sich der Erzähler als Suchender, der das Kommen der freundlichen Gottheit erwartet, und schildert gleichzeitig... Read more

The Autobiography of William McGonagall

By: William Topaz McGonagall

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his discordant muse is hugely popular all over the world - no less a figure than Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever?He didn't discover he... Read more

Rab the Rhymer

By: Robert Burns

Narrated by: David Rintoul, Vivien Heilbron, Adrian Chandler...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed actors David Rintoul and Vivien Heilbron and eminent musicians Mhairi Lawson and Adrian Chandler present not only Burns' greatest hits, but also a selection of his lesser-known, yet fascinating works. Together these provide a comprehensive overview of his prodigious and versatile genius. Divided into four thematic sections ('Love',... Read more

Poésies lues par Jean Vilar

By: Victor Hugo & Verlaine

Narrated by: Jean Vilar

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

28 textes, 19 auteurs, fleurons de la poésie française, représentent la beauté et la pérennité de la littérature. Jean Vilar, qui a toujours donné au Théâtre National Populaire une place prépondérante à la poésie, se révèle un guide sûr dont le grand talent éclaire pour nous les chemins de la poésie française. Les 28 poèmes : Charles d'Orléans :... Read more

You and Yours

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and... Read more

Avon's Harvest

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"In ""Avon's Harvest,"" Edwin Arlington Robinson devotes the majority of the book to one long narrative poem of the same title, which tells the story of how a man's life was destroyed by the slow canker of an unreasoning hatred he formed as a young man, and of a sudden act of violence that flared out of it. Robinson's wields his sparse, simple,... Read more

The Poetry of Wales

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive collection of poetry celebrating Wales including contributions by W. H. David, Edward Thomas and Aneurin. Read more