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Night Lunch
By: Mike Chaulk
Narrated by: Mike Chaulk
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Night Lunch is a shapeshifting sonnet sequence set in the cold waters off the North Coast of Labrador. Reflecting Chaulk’s own experience, the speaker—a young deckhand on a freight and passenger ferry servicing isolated communities—endures long irregular work hours, weather, icebergs, and loneliness, all the while navigating the taut... Read more
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A Cemetery for Holes
By: Tom Prime & Gary Barwin
Narrated by: Tom Prime & Gary Barwin
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In A Cemetery for Holes, poetic language bends and breaks, resists and reforms under the stress of family trauma. Consensual reality shifts with nonconsensual harm. It is this history of violence which is ultimately, confronted, fought against, and overcome. While engaged in this struggle, the poems also strive to rebuild, to console and to... Read more
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Keeping Count
By: M. Travis Lane
Narrated by: M. Travis Lane
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Keeping Count, M. Travis Lane’s 18th collection of poetry, begins in the poet’s favourite terrain: short, condensed lyric that focuses on the natural world. “But pull a thread: music turns” Lane writes, and the book progressively defamiliarizes the reader, moving from ecopoetry to a longer poetry of interiority in the second section, concluding... Read more
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Saturn Peach
By: Lily Wang
Narrated by: Lily Wang
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, “There are things I never want to know but always know. Every day I live with them. Every day I live. I am like a... Read more
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The Untranslatable I
By: Roxanna Bennett
Narrated by: Roxanna Bennett
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In unmeaningable, her previous Trillium Poetry Award winning book with Gordon Hill Press, Roxanna Bennett renovated the North American disability poetics canon via her queer fusion of invisible and visible disability identities. The Untranslatable I builds on Roxanna's acute sense of form and cripping of myth by establishing a more reflective,... Read more
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Me, You, Then Snow
By: Khashayar Mohammadi
Narrated by: Khashayar Mohammadi
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi is a collection of poetry woven from dreams, memories and deep-seeded longing, a collection of poetry that ranges from ambiguously addressed love-letters, to ekphrastic poems for arthouse cinema, to pieces written near midnight when the day’s experiences rush back into view. Though working in diverse... Read more
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The Garden
By: A. F. Moritz
Narrated by: A. F. Moritz
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book centers on the South Central Los Angeles “riot” of 1992 in response to the... Read more
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The correct fury of your why is a mountain
By: Kevin Andrew Heslop
Narrated by: Kevin Andrew Heslop
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet-critic Jim Johnstone has described Kevin Heslop's the correct fury of your why is a mountain as among “the most promising poetic projects to come out of Canada in recent years.” This debut collection communicates Heslop’s sense of balance as a visual artist, curator, and poet who weights the page with visual harmony. By turns experiment,... Read more
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I know something you don't know
By: Amy LeBlanc
Narrated by: Amy LeBlanc
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection of folklore and femininity. With fairy-tale lucidity and fluid voice, the poems in this collection weave through the seams between story and fact. This debut collection is alluring and noxious like hemlock, foxglove, and blooming wildflowers. Read more
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[SQUELCH PROCEDURES]
By: MLA Chernoff
Narrated by: MLA Chernoff
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word “squelch” acts as a guide to Chernoff’s unique voice, which uses language to swaddle intrusive thoughts and mimic defense mechanisms such as avoidance,... Read more
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What Color Is Goodness?
By: Emily Morrison
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the question of her cartwheeling five-year-old niece, “Emmy, What Color is Goodness?,” this poem was written to help readers find goodness in the most unexpected places.First-time author EMILY MORRISON offers a vision of kindness, acceptance, and understanding in unsettled times within this beautiful poem, featuring the delightful... Read more
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How Beautiful People Are
By: Ayaz Pirani
Narrated by: Ayaz Pirani
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In How Beautiful People Are, his third collection, Ayaz Pirani continues to write his people’s pothi: a trans-national, inter-generational poetry of post-colonial love and loss animated by the syncretizing figure of Kabir and drawn from the extraordinary diwan of ginan and granth literature. Walking alongside the tiger of Ali and an assortment... Read more
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Stories and Poems for Relaxation and Travel Audiobook 2
By: Penny Wobbly of WobblingPen
Narrated by: Penny Wobbly of WobblingPen
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Hello EveryoneThese Stories and Poems were produced to help with Relaxation and Travel.Slipping comfortably into filling boring waiting times, at Airports, Stations, Hospitals and any other occasionyou find spare time on your hands.I have recorded, these short stories and poems about real life,with a few retrograde historical additions to add to... Read more
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El acercamiento de la mujer cactus y el hombre globo
By: Rayden
Narrated by: Ana Valenciano & Rayden
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
¿DE QUÉ LADO ESTÁ TU CORAZÓN? La primera novela de David Martínez Álvarez, RAYDEN, es un canto al valor de lo diferente. Una historia de amor a golpe de extremos. Un volcán despierto. DESCUBRE AL ESCRITOR TRAS LAS CANCIONES «No sé qué fue antes, si la canción o la novela, pero gracias a la mujer cactus y al hombre globo por acercar posturas. En... Read more
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A Kiss from Mommy
By: Eve Heidi Bine-Stock
Narrated by: Alicia Pendry
Length: 1 minute
Abridged: No
The tender messages in this book differ from every other book about “mommy’s kisses.” Through rhyme which doesn’t miss a beat, we see the many ways a little girl’s mommy uses kisses to teach, coax, soothe, encourage, play and convey a myriad of other expressions of love. This story is also unique in showing the way a mother’s loving kisses are... Read more
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Guárdame en ti
By: Raúl Zurita
Narrated by: Raúl Zurita
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Raúl Zurita es uno de los poetas vivos más deslumbrantes de la lengua española POR EL GANADOR DEL PREMIO INTERNACIONAL DE POESÍA CIUDAD DE GRANADA FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Zurita es un referente indiscutible de las letras chilenas y una de las más grandes voces de la poesía contemporánea. Esta selección a cargo de Ignacio Echevarría recorre los... Read more
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Eine Liebesgeschichte in unvollkommenen Versen
By: Kris Felti
Narrated by: Sandra Steinbach
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Diese Liebesgeschichte in unvollkommenen Versen erzählt vom Straucheln, Verlieren, vom Lieben und von Selbstzweifeln. Für jeden Menschen sind das die Begleiter, die mal mehr, mal weniger ein Stück des Lebens mit ihm gehen. Dabei hinterlassen sie ihre Spuren, im Herzen und auf der Seele, die manches Mal nicht mehr verheilen. Wären unser Herz und... Read more
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Yellow Rain
By: Mai Der Vang
Narrated by: Mai Der Vang
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this staggering work of documentary and poetry, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the US abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as "yellow rain,"... Read more
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Emotions felt to the bone
By: Kunal Roy
Narrated by: Kunal Roy
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Emotions. They drive us forward, striving to achieve the unthinkable.But they can also drag us down, tear us apart, and leave us unwilling to barely lift our heads.Well, I've experienced both sides of this spectrum. And in my first-ever full-length audiobook, Emotions Felt to the Bone, I share these journeys with you in the form of poetry.Some... Read more
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Judas Goat
By: Gabrielle Bates
Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Stellar . . . with great humanity, grace and precision." —Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast
Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this... Read more
Don't Bite the Apple, Eve
By: Kimolee Eryn
Narrated by: Kimolee Eryn
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't Bite The Apple, Eve is a book of prose, poetry, musings, statements of my beliefs, hopes and experiences. It shares a delicate combination of past darkness and future light through stories of self, family, love and faith. Read more
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Studies in Smoke
By: Charles Edward Fremuth
Narrated by: Matthew Fuller
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Studies in Smoke is not fiction. The shared event is actual and the resonance real. So is this.
This poetry remains faithful to traditional form. It is true to life and to living simply while thinking too much.
It is true to the cycle of uneasy, never settled sentiments that prescribe no moral, no message, no mysticism. In plain language and the... Read more
Poésies, contes et nouvelles du Québec
By: Divers auteurs
Narrated by: Jean Faubert & Ghislaine Paradis
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Dans cette époque matérialiste où nous vivons, pour sauvegarder notre capacité de rêve, d’enthousiasme et d’imagination, ne pourrions-nous pas nous réfugier dans un « Ailleurs » ? , celui du monde enchanté de l’harmonie poétique et musicale, l’une des formes d’expression les plus anciennes et les plus spontanées, indispensable à la pensée.... Read more
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The Prophet
By: Khalil Gibran
Narrated by: James Held
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
I go with the wind, people of Orphalese, but not down into emptiness; And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love, then let it be a promise till another day.” The beloved prophet Almustafa (meaning “The Chosen One”) has lived within the city walls of Orphalese for twelve years. He has walked among the people and formed a deep... Read more
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