Poetry audiobooks

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

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 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 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 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

Los Poetas Del Amor: Antologia De Los Mas Bellos Poemas

By: Various

Narrated by: Gaspar Ospina & Adelaida Espinosa

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

El amor a traves de los ojos de los poetas. Puesto que el amor es uno de los motores que mueve a la humanidad, no es de sorprender que los grandes poetas hayan dedicado una parte importante de sus creaciones a expresar esos sentimientos, desde el amor inocente hasta el erotico, pasando por todos los matices de la pasion y del canto a la persona... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six headed serpent Scylla.Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet, Homer, the supposed 8th Century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of Homer's epic poems tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles' slaying of Hector, and the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks.Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet, Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey. These classic epics provided the basis for Greek... Read more

Celtic Poets

By: Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde & Robert Burns

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Celtic Poets breathes vitality into the works of Swift, Burns, Wilde, and more. Cosham's finely honed delivery brings verdant valleys, quaint villages, and drunkards' and maidens' conversations to listeners' ears. What is not to love?! Read more