Poetry audiobooks

The Noel Coward Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Throughout his life, Noel Coward the master songwriter, 'derived a considerable amount of private pleasure from writing verse.' Much of it is gathered in this first ever CD collection. From moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets and personal reminiscences, this delightful collection is a perfect blend of vintage... Read more

The Poet's Guide to Life - Abridged

By: Ulrich Baer

Narrated by: Ethan Hawke

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.”
–RAINER MARIA RILKE

In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of... Read more

The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Twenty-eight rollicking rhymes from the undisputed master of hilarious verse for children, Jack Prelutsky, are found in this uproarious poetry collection. In this collection there are tongue-twisting (but real) places to visit, such as Tuscaloosa and Winnemucca. There are remarkable sights, such as an elephant perched in a sycamore tree. And... Read more

Spike's Poems

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the pen of comic genius Spike Milligan, here are 62 hilarious gems read by Spike himself, including "Ying-Tong-Iddle-I-Po", "This Is a Stick Up", and "Fleas, Knees, and Hidden Elephants".
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Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection

By: Allen Ginsberg

Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of recordings written and read by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th. The collection is accompanied by a special 64 page booklet containing the poems. Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems (1956), Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a... Read more

Poemas

By: Joan Maragall

Narrated by: Marta Salvador Torras

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Poemas": Recopilación de poemas de Maragall. Read more

A Child's Christmas In Wales - Abridged

By: Dylan Thomas

Narrated by: Dylan Thomas

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago Christmas.Thomas’s wonderful recollection of this holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in this vivid performance. Also included are five poems selected and... Read more

Sonnets - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The complete sonnets performed by the quintessential Shakespearian actor, Sir John Gielgud. Read more

The Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur

By: Richard Wilbur

Narrated by: Richard Wilbur

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the... Read more

In Flanders Fields & Other Poems About War

By: John McCrae & Wilfred Owen

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Diary Entries
4. In Flanders Fields
5. Preface: Poems by Wilfred Owen
6. Strange Meeting
7. Greater Love
8. Apologia pro Poemate Meo The Show
9. Mental Cases
10. Parable of the Old Men and the Young
11. Arms and the Boy
12. Anthem for Doomed Youth
13. The Send-off
14. Insensibility
15. Dulce et Decorum est
16. The Sentry
17. The... Read more

Dunbar Out Loud - Abridged

By: Bobby Norfolk

Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are a baker's dozen of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems brought to life in the medium he always wrote for - the spoken word. As narrated by Bobby Norfolk, these poems evoke the range of moods - from elegy to wonder to celebration - that the poet is remembered for. Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872, to parents who were both former slaves.... Read more

Foolish/Unfoolish

By: Ashanti

Narrated by: Ashanti

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this humorous and honest poetry collection, ‘Princess of Hip Hop’ Ashanti shares her unique perspective on life and love. Foolish/Unfoolish is a collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by R&B singer Ashanti. Ever since she was thirteen years old, Ashanti has kept journals of her poetry, thoughts, and ideas about life and... Read more

The Classic Hundred Poems - Abridged

By: Various

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

An anthology every poetry lover should have: 100 carefully selected and beautifully read poems. Read more

The Classic Fifty Poems - Abridged

By: Various

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves. That's the concept behind The Classic Fifty Poems, and it works brilliantly. Read more

Hope Through Heartsongs

By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Narrated by: Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning bestselling poetry of 11-year-old Mattie Stepanek has touched the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. From Heartsongs, to Vietnam War Memorial, to Prayer for a Journey, Mattie has written movingly and courageously about life and death, love and loss, faith and hope, innocence and joy. His struggle with a rare form of... Read more

Spoon River Anthology - Abridged

By: Edgar Lee Masters

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more

Pablo Neruda Lee A Pablo Neruda

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Pablo Neruda

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Los mas bellos poemas de amor en espanol, escritos y leidos por Pablo Neruda. Veinte poemas de amor y Una cancion desesperada y Los versos del capitán (selección).Some of the Spanish language's most beautiful poems written and read by Pablo Neruda. Read more

Les nuits

By: Alfred de Musset

Narrated by: Anne Plumet & Lambert Wilson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

De la nuit de mai à la nuit d'octobre Musset évoque le problème du role de la souffrance dans la création poétique et dans la vie. De la ce dialogue si nouveau entre la MUSE tendrement maternelle et Le POÈTE tourmenté par la souffrance. Read more

The Ecstatic Soul - Jelaluddin Rumi

By: Coleman Barks

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Jelalludin Rumi’s poetry, explores the genius, mystery and rapture of Rumi’s work; why he has become the most-read poet in America, and what his poetry has in common with the immortal writings of Dickinson, Emerson and Thoreau. Read more

Dante

By: R. W. B. Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered exile from the city that would fiercely reclaim him a... Read more

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon offers fresh interpretations of the most widely read and loved poet of the 20th century— translated and read by a master of poetic expressiveness. Out of the great profusion of Neruda's poetry, Stephen Mitchell has selected forty-nine poems and brought them to life for a new generation of... Read more

The Poetry of Christina Rossetti

By: Christina Rossetti

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of Christina Rossetti's finest poetry including Goblin Market. Read more

The Poetry of Alexander Pope

By: Alexander Pope

Narrated by: George Rylands

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of Alexander Pope's finest poetry read by George Rylands, Peggy Ashcroft and Emma Topping. Read more

The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: David Philo

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of Rudyard Kipling's finest poetry read by David Philo, Christopher Hassall, Emma Topping and Rudyard Kipling himself. Read more