Poetry audiobooks

Odd Owls & Stout Pigs

By: Arnold Lobel

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes another brand-new collection of rhyming stories—this time featuring a unique assortment of owls and pigs. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, Odd Owls & Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense is full of the same humor and wit that is found in Lobel's beloved Frog and Toad stories. This... Read more

The Rape of Lucrece

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the... Read more

Wilhelm Busch: Eduards Traum - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Busch

Narrated by: Andreas Muthesius

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eduard hat einen Traum. Einen dieser Träume, in denen alles möglich ist. Und so verlässt Eduard seinen Körper und saust durch das Universum. Er begegnet wunderlichen Dingen und Lebewesen - darunter den allerwunderlichsten, den Menschen. Groteskes Spätwerk des Meisters. Read more

Wilhelm Busch: Poesie & Prosa - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Busch

Narrated by: Andreas Muthesius

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Weltbekannt wurde er durch seine Bildergeschichten wie Max und Moritz oder Die Fromme Helene. Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908) war ein ambitionierter Schriftsteller, dessen Werke auch ohne kongenialen Tuschestrich bestehen konnten. Read more

Edgar Allan Poes Welt Des Horrors

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Beschreibung: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), der Meister des gepflegten Schreckens, begegnet dem Hörer mit klassischen Geschichten, in denen Tod und Wiederkehr, zumal von schönen Ehefrauen, thematisiert wird. Was Wunder, dass die männlichen Hauptpersonen darüber verrückt werden? Inhalt: CD 1: Der Rabe, Das verräterische Herz, Das Fass... Read more

Fragments A.K.A. Incomplete Thoughts

By: Zakee Howze

Narrated by: Fran Gregory

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This book was written during a time of a recession in my country. I am a few days away from being a bastard case. My father bailed out on me and my mother. I fell in love with doing crimes at the age of 12. I caught my first felony at 15. I have a lot of stories to tell from first hand. I stripped myself away from blessing at an early age. You... Read more

Loving Through Heartsongs

By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Narrated by: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect gift for Valentine's Day, to share with a loved one or cherish as a keepsake, fromNew YorkTimes bestselling poet and peacemaker Mattie J.T.Stepanek. Mattie J.T.Stepanek has won the hearts of millions with his inspiring poems.Now he's ready to spread a little love with Loving Through Heartsongs, a beautiful collection of poems written... Read more

Celebrate Through Heartsongs

By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Narrated by: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A spiritual and uplifting collection of poems, from the New York Times bestselling poet and peacemaker Mattie J. T.Stepanek. Mattie J.T.Stepanek is an award-winning poet whose struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy has touched the lives of people nationwide. Celebrate through Heartsongs, his third audio program, contains inspiring poems... Read more

A Heartsongs Collection

By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Narrated by: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mattie J. T. Stepanek takes us on a journey with more the full collection of his moving poems.

These poems share the rare wisdom that Mattie acquired through his struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and the death of his three siblings from the same disease. His life view was one of love and generosity and as a poet and a peacemaker,... Read more

77 Love Sonnets

By: Garrison Keillor

Narrated by: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of... Read more

Wenn ich in deine Augen seh

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Gerd Baltus, Maren Eggert, Peter Franke, Donata...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum einer hat Deutschland so voller Liebe, Wut und Witz besungen wie Heinrich Heine. Sanfte lyrische Töne wie "Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt" gehören ebenso zur Sprache dieses Dichters wie die bittere Satire "Erinnerung aus Krähwinkels Schreckenstagen" oder der charmante Humor in "Das Fräulein stand am Meere". Und noch immer zieht die... Read more

Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt

By: Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach, Gerd Baltus, Donata Höffer,...

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Generationen sind die Worte Friedrich Schillers in aller Munde. Seine Enttäuschung über die blutigen Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution klingt in den Zeilen "Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn" ebenso wieder wie sein Optimismus in der "Ode an die Freude". Durch alle Werke dringt die innigste... Read more

Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen" ist Heinrich Heines bedeutendste politische Dichtung. Heine verbindet sensible Wahrnehmung sozialer, religiöser und politischer Veränderungen in Deutschland und Europa mit dem für Heine typischen spöttelnden und ironischen Witz. 1844 entstanden jene berühmten Verse, von denen der Dichter selbst sagte, sie seien... Read more

Anthologie de la poésie française du XIème au XIXème siècle

By: Collectif

Narrated by: Alain Bashung, Anne Plumet, Bernadette Le Sache...

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

En neuf siècles de poésies françaises, différentes formes et différents mouvements ont traversé l'histoire littéraire, mais la langue et l'art perdurent, comme l'atteste cette anthologie de la poésie. De grands acteurs prêtent leurs voix à des textes fondateurs de la culture classique et nous offrent ainsi un tableau vivant de cet art. Read more

Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Denis Lavant & Denis Podalydes

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Illuminations ont été publiées en 1886, sous forme de feuilletons, dans la revue La Vogue. Rimbaud a remis ces poèmes à Verlaine lors de leur rencontre à Stuttgart en mars 1875. C'est Verlaine qui s'est occupé de publier ces vers. Il y insère une préface dans laquelle il annonce que ces « ornementations colorées » se composent de « prose... Read more

Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daring new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character and have continued to provide inspiration to people and poets for generations.Leaves of Grass is Whitman's masterpiece,... Read more

Endpoint and Other Poems - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Charles McGrath

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.

The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness.... Read more

Le bateau ivre

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Cédri Zimmerlin, Denis Podalydes, Lorant Deutsc...

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Bateau ivre regroupe les poésies de Rimbaud écrits entre 1869 - il est alors âgé de 15 ans - et 1873. Il s'agit de textes en vers, assez courts, que l'auteur a présentés aux éditeurs ou aux écrivains parnassiens. Read more

Une saison en enfer

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Lorànt Deutsch

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Une Saison en enfer a été écrit en quelques mois, et c'est le seul recueil poétique que Rimbaud a voulu porter jusqu'à la publication. Il avait 19 ans. Read more

John Keats

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his... Read more

Last Poems

By: A. E. Housman

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.
In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly: "I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more." He pulled Last Poems together because his life-long friend, Moses Jackson, was dying and Housman... Read more

Look We Have Coming to Dover!

By: Daljit Nagra

Narrated by: Daljit Nagra

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love,... Read more

If God Is a Woman, Who Am I?

By: Danna Schweitzer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"If God Is a Woman, Who Am I?" Is a collection of short stories and poems that attempt to shed light on the questions concerning our identity in this world in relationship with our creator and our fellow beings. Sometimes one must go in search of the questions before one can seek the answers. If god is not who I envisioned, does that change me? Read more

One Hundred Favourite Poems - Abridged

By: Classic FM

Narrated by: Adrian Irvine, Alec McCowen, Charles Collingwoo...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This delightful anthology is a timeless collection of poems chosen by Classic FM listeners.

With humorous limericks, romantic sonnets, traditional and modern classics, this book is a true refelction of the greatest and best-loved verse. Discover poems for special occasions, as well as poems to suit any mood.

Whether you're reading them for the... Read more