Poetry audiobooks

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis & a full cast

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read more

War Is Kind

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Crane's second book of poetry followed up the success of his first book, Black Riders. His search for love, his lonely, bitter struggle to make his peace with God, the war in his heart between cynicism and an unshakable longing for truth and beauty in the world - these all continue in his second book.Sadly, this second book was also his... Read more

North of Boston

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.
From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man. Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in... Read more

A Boy's Will

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written. This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind... Read more

Aus der verrückten Welt des Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Erik Grun

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als reisender Artist im Matrosenanzug tingelte Joachim Ringelnatz ab 1920 durch die Kabaretts in ganz Deutschland und trug seine Gedichte vor. Freilich, seine "Turngedichte" und die Erzählungen und Lieder des Seefahrers "Kuttel Daddeldu" waren ausgesprochen erfolgreich. Live war Ringelnatz jedoch schlichtweg umwerfend. Bis er 1933 von den... Read more

Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse

By: John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old stuffed bear, through to his undergraduate years at... Read more

Poesie unterwegs - Abridged

By: Josepf von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl, Heinrich H...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Goslar

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ob im Zug, im Auto, im Bus, oder im Flugzeug. Ob der Weg das Ziel ist, das Büro oder die Westküste der USA: Unterwegs sein ist immer etwas Besonderes. Hier sind wir dem Alltagstrott entrissen, hier fühlen und sehen wir ständig Neues - und schärfen somit auch die Sinne für neues Hören. Als idealer Begleiter für unterwegs präsentiert sich das... Read more

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare on the Fly - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Annie Vollmers

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Romeo and Juliet - the most famous lovers in the world, made immortal by William Shakespeare. However, many students have a hard time fighting through the bard's master pieces - because the old English is sometimes hard to understand. For those in need of understandable English we give you the new series "Shakespeare on the Fly":... Read more

Prison Poetry

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown takes a look at poetry in prisons. Read more

Whispers from Eternity

By: Paramhansa Yogananda

Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Many poetic works can inspire, but few, like this one, have the power to change your life. These verses rank with the greatest mystical poetry of all time: the works of St. John of the Cross, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai, and Omar Khayyam. In this book Paramhansa Yogananda—the great master of yoga and author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi—shares... Read more

Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh

Narrated by: Lutz Schäfer, Johannes Steck, Torsten Münchow, ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Drama, mit dem Jean Anouilh seinen Weltruhm begründete. Gegen den Willen des unbarmherzigen Statthalters Kreon bestattet Antigone, Tochter des Ödipus, ihren Bruder Polyneikes. Doch mit dieser trotzigen Tat und ihrer Reuelosigkeit löst sie eine Katastrophe aus, die unweigerlich ihr eigenes Leben kostet. Ein klassisches Drama, das bis heute... Read more

The Black Riders

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1894, when Stephen Crane was just twenty-two years old, he showed his friend, Hamlin Garland, a set of poems in manuscript. Garland showed them to John D. Barry, who arranged for a public reading of the new work. Crane could not summon up the courage to read the poems, or even attend the reading; he waited outside on the street while Barry... Read more

Betjeman's Britain Poems From The BBC Archive

By: BBC & John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates. Even after his death, his popularity continues to garner acclaim and new admirers. Fortunately, he left behind a legacy of poetry readings and performances in the BBC archives that can be enjoyed in this comprehensive collection. Selected from over thirty years of radio and... Read more

Stauffer an Krüsi antworten - Abridged

By: Hans Krüsi & Michael Stauffer

Narrated by: Vanessa Stern, Mirjam Hofmann & Christian Ahlers

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dichter Stauffer ruft Hans Krüsi. Dies ist die Konstellation des Projektes "Stauffer an Krüsi antworten". Der Aussenseiterkünstler Hans Krüsi, 1995 in St. Gallen gestorben, gibt selber keine Antwort mehr. Aber sein Werk spricht noch immer in unverwechselbarer Deutlichkeit. Dichter Stauffer taucht ein in das noch längst nicht gebändigte Material... Read more

Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson, born in 1830, was the granddaughter of the founder of Amherst College. Except for a few journeys when she was young, Emily lived the life of a recluse in her father's house, spending her days writing poems and letters. In 1862, she sent a few of her poems to a publisher. He replied that her work was too unusual, too different.... Read more

One Poem at a Time

By: Samuel Hazo

Narrated by: Samuel Hazo

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Miniver Cheevy A.E. Housman’s I to My Perils Gerard Manley Hopkins’ As Kingfishers Catch Fire A.E. Housman’s Here Dead Lie We Archibald MacLeish’s You, Andrew Marvell John Ciardi’s In Place of a Curse e.e. cummings’ i am a little church William Butler Yeats’ The Deep-Sworn... Read more

Bird Songs in Literature

By: Joseph Wood Krutch & Peter Kellogg

Narrated by: Frederick G. Marcham

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This rare treat for the nature lover is a special collection of over forty bird songs and the beloved poems they inspired.The songs of birds have been an inspiration to poets since before the days of Chaucer. But how many of us who have read about the skylark and nightingale since our school days have ever heard their famous song? And how many... Read more

It's Raining Pigs and Noodles

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The master of mischievous rhyme, Jack Prelutsky has whipped up a storm of more than one hundred hilarious poems. Grab your umbrella—and make sure it's a big one!It's raining pigs and noodles,
it's pouring frogs and hats,
chrysanthemums and poodles,
bananas, brooms, and cats.
Assorted prunes and parrots
are dropping from the sky,
here comes a bunch of... Read more

My Dog May Be a Genius

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch in a hardware store? Have you ever sat with a skunk in a courtroom, shopped for a dinosaur, or conversed with a Bupple, a Wosstrus, a Violinnet, or a Celloon? You will have, once you've read this exuberant collaboration from Jack Prelutsky... Read more

Orte der Liebe - Abridged

By: Barbara Krohn

Narrated by: Barbara Krohn

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barbara Krohn hat sich primär als Autorin von Kriminalromanen einen Namen gemacht. Und doch sind "Der Tote unter der Piazza", "Weg vom Fenster" und "Rosas Rückkehr" (alle Aufbau-Verlagsgruppe) nur ein Teil im Schaffen von Barbara Krohn. "Vor allem dient ihr die Tugend des genauen Hinsehens dazu, atmosphärisch dichte Porträts zu zeichnen:... Read more

Traumfängerin - Abridged

By: Rea Revekka Poulharidou

Narrated by: Rea Revekka Poulharidou

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rea Revekka Poulharidou fängt Träume ein, verdichtet sie in einer faszinierenden Sprache zu eindrücklichen und ausdrucksstarken Bildern, die den Leserinnen und Lesern darüber hinaus viel Raum für eigenes Träumen lassen. Es geht in den Gedichten um den Fluss des Lebens, um Liebe, Sehnsucht, Zerstörung und Hoffnung. Rea Revekka Poulharidous Lyrik... Read more

Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten der deutschen Literatur - Abridged

By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Storm, Hans Chritia...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CD 1: Theodor Storm, der Vertreter des deutschen literarischen Realismus schlechthin, nimmt sich hier des überaus romantisierten Themas Weihnachten an. Weihnachtsabend I: "An die hellen Fenster kommt er gegangen..." (Gedicht) Unter dem Tannenbaum (Erzählung) Weihnachtsabend II: "Die fremde Stadt durchschritt ich sorgenvoll..."... Read more

Die schönsten Gedichte - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Gedichte von der Klassik bis zur Neuromantik! Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethes, Friedrich Schillers, Theodor Fontanes, Rainer Maria Rilkes und vieler anderer werden überragend von Sven Görtz gelesen. Sven Görtz wird am 13. November 1967 im Westerwald geboren. Er studierte Philosophie, Anglistik und Germanistik in Gießen. Neben... Read more

Heinrich Heine - Gedichte - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heinrich Heines Gedichtswerk stellt das Zentrum seines umfangreichen literarischen Schaffens dar. In seiner Lyrik zeigt sich der 1797 in Düsseldorf geborene Dichter in seiner ganzen inhaltlichen wie stilistischen Vielfalt: heiter und ausgelassen, politisch engagiert, traurig, romantisch und ironisch, stets voller Esprit und Wohlklang. Heine ist... Read more